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Eckerd: Finding the Right Prescription
the biography and history of the man and the company
190 pages, Hardcover
First published January 1, 1987
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February 4, 2026
I knew the name "Jack Eckerd", but I had no idea what an amazing man he was. Before he turned twenty he started as a pilot in open-cockpit planes. When World War II came he volunteered and flew cargo planes in the Far East. Returning home he entered his father's drugstore business. Always restless, he bought two drugstores from his father, and eventually turned that initial investment into the Eckerd Drugs chain of 1700 stores.
He sold that, and entered politics, running unsuccessfully for senator and governor of Florida. Then he was appointed the GSA Administrator by President Ford. After that, he returned to Florida and began working in the prison industry. He founded a charitable foundation, which grew to 600 employees. Through his work with prison industries, he met Chuck Colson, who was as Eckerd said "the single most influential person" in his development as a Christian.
Eckerd lived truly an amazing life, and affected so many people: his thousands of employees, government officials, prison administrators and inmates, and beneficiaries of his charitable largess. But as he says near the end of the book, "No amount of success and no amount of civic duty has ever given me the personal fulfillment that I have found by submitting my life to Jesus Christ."
This is a very readable and refreshing book by a very remarkable man.
He sold that, and entered politics, running unsuccessfully for senator and governor of Florida. Then he was appointed the GSA Administrator by President Ford. After that, he returned to Florida and began working in the prison industry. He founded a charitable foundation, which grew to 600 employees. Through his work with prison industries, he met Chuck Colson, who was as Eckerd said "the single most influential person" in his development as a Christian.
Eckerd lived truly an amazing life, and affected so many people: his thousands of employees, government officials, prison administrators and inmates, and beneficiaries of his charitable largess. But as he says near the end of the book, "No amount of success and no amount of civic duty has ever given me the personal fulfillment that I have found by submitting my life to Jesus Christ."
This is a very readable and refreshing book by a very remarkable man.
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