Journey of a Thousand Miles My Story

Name: Journey of a Thousand Miles My Story
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ISBN: 9780385524575

ISBN-10: 0385524579

ISBN-13: 9780385524575

Edition: N/A

Authors: Lang Lang Lang, David Ritz

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"Number One" was a phrase my fatherand, for that matter, my motherrepeated time and time again. It was a phrase spoken by my parents' friends and by their friends' children. Whenever adults discussed the great Chinese painters and sculptors from the ancient dynasties, there was always a single artist named as Number One. There was the Number One leader of a manufacturing plant, the Number One worker, the Number One scientist, the Number One car mechanic. In the culture of my childhood, being best was everything. It was the goal that drove us, the motivation that gave life meaning. And if, by chance or fate or the blessings of the generous universe, you were a child in whom talent was…

Book details

List price: $18.00
Publisher: Random House Publishing Group
Publication date: 9/8/2009
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 5.20" wide x 8.00" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.506
Language: English

David Ritz has collaborated with Ray Charles, Marvin Gaye, B. B. King, Aretha Franklin, Etta James, Smokey Robinson, and Don Rickles. He co-wrote the song Sexual Healing with Marvin Gaye. He received the Gleason Music Book Award four times.