About the book
George Horace Lorimer, the journalist best known as editor of The Saturday Evening Post, wrote this work of fiction as twenty letters from a father to his son. The father, John Graham, is a self-made and prosperous Chicago pork-packer; the son, Pierrepont, whom he calls Piggy, is about to graduate. Each letter carries news along with blunt advice drawn from hard experience, meant to ready the young man for the working life ahead of him. The sayings belong to the Gilded Age, and the letters keep a plain, familiar tone that suggests a bond between father and son.
Ryan Holiday, who lists it among his Books to Base Your Life On, wished his own father had written him letters this good and praised them as honest, genuine and full of sound advice.
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Ryan Holiday (Founder/Brass Check)
These two books of letters are great—I wish my father had written me stuff this good. The first book is the (supposedly) preserved correspondence between Old Gorgon Graham, a self-made millionaire in Chicago, and his son who is coming of age and entering the family business. The letters date back to the 1890s but feel like they could have been written in any era. Honest. Genuine. Packed with good advice.
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