U.S. Senator SCOTT BROWN #41 signed AGAINST ALL ODDS 2011 1st Edition Book COA

Description: U.S. Senator SCOTT BROWN #41 signed AGAINST ALL ODDS 2011 1st Edition Hard Cover Book with Dust Jacket in Excellent Condition. By the time I turned eighteen, I had moved seventeen times and lived in at least twelve different homes. Most were rental apartments, second-floor walk-ups in slightly sad and dilapidated converted houses, where walls had been added and the rooms and floors chopped up on by one. My bed, when I had one, wars invariably under the hard slope of the eaves. I also made do with couches and cots, and there was a time when my mother, my sister, and I all slept in the same small room. At School, I was often a free-lunch kid, ravenous for whatever hot food name out of the cafeteria line. My dad was largely gone from my life before I turned one. He materialized only on rare weekends, a smooth talker with his foot on the gas and the convertible top down. In this memoir of resilience and redemption, Scott Brown tells the story of his lonely, nomadic life, shunted from house to apartment, and town-to-town, 16 times over his first 18 years. He survived a largely absent father who spun elaborate tales of his own success but never displayed a single photo of his young son. The extraordinary personal journey of a man who, against all odds, rose to become one of America's most surprising and promising new political figures. Scott Brown's greatest win did not occur on a cold January election night in 2010 when he came from behind to capture the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy for nearly fifty years; it began when he survived a savage beating at the drunken, dirty-fingernail hands of a stepfather when he was barely six years old, while trying to protect his mother. In this gripping memoir of resilience and redemption, Brown tells the story of his difficult, often nomadic childhood, shunted from house to apartment, and town to town, seventeen times over his first eighteen years. He somehow thrived despite a largely absent father, who married four separate times. So did his mother, in relationships frequently stained with alcohol, anger, and even violence. For nearly two decades' growing up, Brown endured innumerable hardships and challenges, even stealing food to eat. He was periodically sent off to live with relatives, his possessions wrapped in a few old blankets. Saved by basketball, he was the boy who shoveled snow from the public courts to shoot hoops alone in the frozen cold. With clear-eyed conviction and unflinching can-dor, Brown tells the story of his own bad-boy days, of the coaches who mentored him, and of how he found a way out of familial chaos through the swish of a ball in the net, winning a starting slot on the Tufts varsity basketball team as a freshman player and becoming the tenth-highest scorer to graduate in the school's history. His rise from there was even more improbable: a first-year law student and member of the Massachusetts National Guard, he was picked as Cosmopolitan magazine's "America's Sexiest Man" and was vaulted into the glamorous world of New York modeling at the height of the 1980s. But the man who was once ushered into the backrooms of Studio 54 returned to Massachusetts to continue with his military and legal training, settle down, raise a family, and soon found an unlikely path that would lead him to national political stardom. Here, too, are the secrets from the unprecedented Senate race that captured the country's imagination and how Scott Brown won his remarkable victory. Poignant, heartfelt, humorous, and profound, this is the story of one man's dream and his determination to fight for a better future. All Autographs obtained in person through Show Signings, Before at Sporting Event, Golf Tournaments and Special Dinner & Charity Events. Comes with My Certificate of Authenicity (COA) from Glenn's Stadium Heroes. SEE More POLITICAL and Other SPORTS Memorabilia in My EBAY STORE. Click on EBAY STORES Logo after my USER ID to see my OTHER SPORTS MEMORABILIA AUCTIONS Specializing in BOSTON SPORTS sorted by Music / Entertainment / Sports Categories!

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Location: Methuen, Massachusetts

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