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Ever the inquisitive scholar, Associate Professor of History Alison F. Frank had the inspiration for a book while doing some pleasure reading on a beach in Greece...
Most athlete autobiographies are pretty mundane and predictable, but the opening sentence of your book certainly grabs the reader: "I'll kill all y'all," the drunk with the shotgun raged. You then detail your father's abuse of you and your brothers, and the moment your family stood up to him and forced him to leave for good. What made you want to open up about all this? I think because every opinion has been out there about me, and no one really knew who I was. I think people just portrayed me as this person that had everything...
...book painful to write? Yes, it was painful. But there was freedom in it. Most guys that have written about my life, they never lived through the abuse I had to go through. I just felt it was time to share who I am. I'm free from all that...
What are you trying to accomplish writing this book? It's not about me. It's about who I help. When I see people on the streets that are homeless, I think 'that could have been me if I had quit.' Everything I wrote in this book I went through, and I went through it publicly. If I didn't get up and quit, hopefully that could encourage other people not to quit...
...Iran, but he questioned whether the new U.S. President was simply concealing an iron fist with a velvet glove. Although revolutionary ideology animates Iranian actions and rhetoric, Parsi believes that geopolitics is the main factor driving the Iranian regime's attitudes toward Israel and the U.S. In his book Treacherous Alliance: The Secret Dealings of Israel, Iran and the U.S., Parsi details a 2003 peace plan in which Iran essentially agreed to abandon terrorism and support Arab-Israeli peace negotiations in exchange for U.S. recognition of Iran's security interests. The plan, Parsi says, was effectively scuttled after the Bush...