Title: Inspiring autobio that kept me reading!
Review: Bernie Kerik's autobiography is a story of a role model who has refused to let himself become victimized by his tormented past and turbulent family history. He isn't the best writer in the world, but he knows how to tell a story--namely his own--with captivating detail and emotion. He tells his story with both toughness and compassion, the same traits that saved him during his neglected childhood and rocky adulthood. By the end of the book (before the epilogue, which relates his perspective of the events of September 11 in harrowing detail), I felt happy for him that he had learned to reconcile his troubled emotions over his past with maturity, dignity, and bravery.If this book has a weak point (other than at-times inconsistently-toned writing), it is that he sometimes indulges in tooting his own horn a little too often. Given his accomplishments, though, I can forgive this by saying, good for him--we need more role models in our society like him!
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