"Mama's Boy" describes the life of author Robert Hood: his early
years in a coal-mining village during the Depression, his life in
the navy during World War II, and his later professional success.
At the heart of Hood's memoir is his proud and talented mother, who
is determined that her headstrong son will become somebody. But the
impish boy is more interested in sports than poetry recitations or
declamation contests. Anxious to enter the war, seventeen-year-old
Hood enlists in the U.S. Navy in 1944 and serves on Guam. He
returns, attends college, and eventually ends up in New York City
as the editor-in-chief of "Boys' Life Magazine." As Hood achieves
success, he meets some of the distinguished artists and authors of
the twentieth century. He lunches with Andre Kertesz, Alex Haley,
and Isaac Asimov; takes tea with Salvador Dali and Philippe
Halsman; and chats on the phone with Margaret Coit, Catherine
Drinker Bowen, and Margaret Bourke-White. He also interviews great
athletes such as Hank Greenberg, Mickey Mantle, and Willie Mays.
But most important to Hood are those people in his family who
mentored him so well. "Mama's Boy" pays tribute to his parents,
grandparents, siblings, uncles, and aunt. His love for them bears
witness to the endurance of human memory.
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