[book shows a little wear at bottom and at spine extremities; DJ has several tears, chips]. (B&W photographs) "Stan Mahoney is independent, opinionated and irascible. He is a twentieth-century frontiersman with a mechanist's skill and the proverbial Irishman' s thirst. His story is a remarkable record of an active, vigorous life laced with philosophy and booze. The book, in Stan's own tough language, is a testament of one man's fascinating survival in a complex world." An extended Studs Terkel-type narrative, as a classic jack-of-all-trades tells the colorful story of his life from 1915 to 1974. Very intelligently edited from some 1500 pages of interview transcripts; not at all a "vanity"project, but a valuable sociological document that also happens to be a great read!

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