I Tell It Like It Is! (Vol. 1 Of 3)

He was a hay-allergic kid born on a hay farm.His dad's solution: "Take an allergy pill, son."That's the America John Kuhn grew up in. Get it done. Don't complain. Take the pill."I Tell It Like It Is!" is Volume 1 of John Kuhn's three-volume autobiography — and it's exactly what the title promises. The story of a farm kid from California's Imperial Valley who got shipped to Indiana for military academy, scraped through Vanderbilt, and ended up writing one of the most honest, funny, and unapologetically American memoirs you'll read this year.What's inside:Childhood in the Imperial Valley — desert farming, sugar beet harvests, a grandfather who took him gopher hunting like he was an extra in CaddyshackCulver Military Academy — where a kid from a farm became a writer, cranking out more than 100 articles a year for The Culver VedetteVanderbilt — and the freshman English professor who told him he was born to write (he's finally listening, 42 years later)Stories about his dad, his mama, his teachers, and the country they built — told the only way John knows how to tell them This is America's book. Written for the folks who remember when a day's work meant something. Who listened to Dodgers games on a transistor radio under the pillow. Who think the country could use a little more plain talk and a little less spin.If you've been waiting for a memoir that's funny without being mean, patriotic without being preachy, and honest without being bitter — this is the one.Volume 1 of 3. Volumes 2 and 3 coming soon. Read more