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Profiles in Smart-Aleck: Why Doesn't It Rain Beer?
Making smartalecky observations is easy. Turning those observations toward serious points at the same time is hard. Walters makes good on that work (as he admits) “most of the time.” He also says that every person is blessed with a smartaleck gland , a fortunate detail of biology for a society that’s naturally skeptical of organizations and its leaders.
Most everyone also would like to be a good and competent leader of some group large or little. In other words, be a captain -in-charge. Walters’ book leads the reader to balance the smartalecky with the mature . Not a bad goal, and utterly necessary to be a good captain . Readers may not like all his points, but they will laugh. Most of the time.
In Profiles in Smart-Aleck , Walters shows he can get the real dirt on crop rotation for farms, put a thumb on the scales of money and politics, pen the right stuff on writers’ problems, pontificate how history may not really teach us so much after all, and shout the happiness of learning hard subjects quickly. Above all, life is good, no matter how bad it pretends to look like at times. This book should be helpful but you’ll have to buy it to agree, or to argue with him. Either is great. And remember, "Life these days is too often a matter of what keystroke to tap next."
Most everyone also would like to be a good and competent leader of some group large or little. In other words, be a captain -in-charge. Walters’ book leads the reader to balance the smartalecky with the mature . Not a bad goal, and utterly necessary to be a good captain . Readers may not like all his points, but they will laugh. Most of the time.
In Profiles in Smart-Aleck , Walters shows he can get the real dirt on crop rotation for farms, put a thumb on the scales of money and politics, pen the right stuff on writers’ problems, pontificate how history may not really teach us so much after all, and shout the happiness of learning hard subjects quickly. Above all, life is good, no matter how bad it pretends to look like at times. This book should be helpful but you’ll have to buy it to agree, or to argue with him. Either is great. And remember, "Life these days is too often a matter of what keystroke to tap next."
216 pages, Paperback
Published November 23, 2022
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