Life On A Shoestring: The American Dream

by Scott Chisman

What am I going to do in life? What am I supposed to do? How can I decide what to do when everything looks like a sham? What is this American Dream? Are we not all living our lives on a shoestring? By the time I completed this book I realized the nature of my problem. I rearranged my work to look like an eighteen-hole golf course, and I saw the light. I realized that I was a guitar player living in a golfer's world. We don't understand our leaders because they are golfers, and they are living on a golf course. They don't understand us because we are living on a shoestring. I realized that I was just shooting a bad round. I reformatted my work into a language that the golfer's can understand. I looked at my journey through the American Dream for the last forty years like I was playing a round of golf.

As I play the course, I try to stay right in the middle of the fairway, neither hook nor a slice. I try to stay out of the sand traps and avoid the water. Unfortunately, I've had to spend some time in the woods looking for my ball. I hope this book will teach you the attitude that overcomes adversity and an attitude of hope and of humor, because we'll need it. And I hope that I find my ball. See you at the nineteenth hole

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595325947
• ISBN13: 9780595325948
• Release Date: September 2004
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 348 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Amazingly Creative Rhetoric

This book is brilliant. It is divided into "eighteen holes" instead of eighteen chapters, and each chapter has 3 to 5 sections, depending on the hole. Each hole asks a rhetorical question about American Life and the American Dream, in search of the nebulous American Dream. It implys that our leaders are golfers and many in America are living on a shoestring. It spans the last forty years in America, and more really. But it really focuses in on the Sixties Generation, the Generation Gap, and the music, art, and media that was spawned by it. In the sixties there was a grand vision for America. By the year two thousand all that was left was getting to the year two thousand. What is our vision now and where are we going for the next forty years?