ALAN ALDA’S, “THINGS I OVERHEARD WHILE TALKING TO MYSELF.”

Alan Alda is a wonderful actor, director, and writer and so much more. In fact, I will go so far as to call him a “Renaissance Man,” in the DA Vinci mode.

Mr. Alda’s, “Things I Overheard While Talking to Myself,” is a testament to the above statement. Besides being on one of the biggest TV shows ever, M*A*S*H*,he also spend eleven years as host of “Scientific American Frontiers,” where he insisted on meeting and interviewing all the scientists himself. His curiosity is immeasurable and before speaking before a conference of experts on Thomas Jefferson, he went to China in the hope of finding out something about Jefferson that not even the historians knew, and he found it out in a rice field.

He is currently a visiting Professor at Stony Brook University’s Alan Alda Center for Communicating Science. He wrote the play “Radiance: The Passion of Marie Curie” and starred and help write the play “QED” about physicist Richard Feynman.

He is an empathic and humble man and his inspirational speeches before scientific, medical, and theater students (just to name a few) is reason enough to read his book. It should be mandatory for all college graduates to read because his wisdom and knowledge about life might be more important than anything most students ever learn in the classroom.

Highly, highly recommend.