Geoffrey Douglas
Auteur van The Game of Their Lives: The Untold Story of the World Cup's Biggest Upset
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Geoffrey Douglas is an award-winning American author and journalist and former adjunct professor of writing at the University of Massachusetts Lowell. His nonfiction books include The Game of Their Lives about the 1950 FIFA World Cup soccer match between the United States and England, which toon meer resulted in a movie of the same name. He also wrote The Classmates: Privilege, Chaos and the End of an Era; Dead Opposite: The Lives and Loss of Two American Boys; and Class: The Wreckage of an American Family. toon minder
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This memoir was triggered, in the spring of 2004, by the presidential bid of fellow alum Kerry, and its impact on some of his former classmates at St. Paul's school more than forty years earlier. The author recalls the frantic e-mail exchanges that eventually prompted him to meet with a few of his former classmates, including Kerry. He discovered that St. Paul’s alumni had endured a broad range of experiences since graduating, and he eloquently chronicles those experiences. The narrative frequently returns to Arthur, a class clown mercilessly ridiculed at school who suddenly died while the e-mail reunion was in full swing. The book is filled with the emotions unleashed by a group of middle-aged men’s miraculous reconnection. Douglas describes meetings between himself and several other graduates, including Chad Floyd, a successful architect and Vietnam vet whose wife was crippled by depression, and Philip Heckscher, a Harlem high-school teacher who took a long time coming to terms with his homosexuality. While the discussion about John Kerry is the least interesting in the book it matters little, because the reunion he inadvertently sparked opens a gateway for Douglas to muse on his own life journey, one that began with his leaving St. Paul's a year before graduation, and such larger concepts as identity, loss, expectation, failure and idealism. This memoir brought back my own memories of not too dissimilar events and interactions with my fellow high school classmates, some of whom I reconnected with last fall at our high school reunion. Douglas' memoir is among the best I have read.… (meer)