I really expected this to be a book about John Conyers, Jr., through the lens of his being a parent. In portions, it was. In other portions, it was very much about the life that John Conyers III has lived well outside his relationship his dad. Digressions into his business failures, relationship troubles, and other foibles pulled me away from what I thought I was going to be learning. Despite attempts to hook these back into lessons that he took away from his relationship with his father, the book simply wasn't long enough to pull together all the strings. There were some real moments of insight, but I didn't learn what I thought I would from this text.

Conyers' self-narration did allow him to shape the emotional resonance of his story, but at the times were he was most defensive, this didn't help him.

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