A Boy Named John

FROM THE BOOK COVER: "A BOY NAMED JOHN IS THE STORY OF INCIDENTS IN A MAN'S LIFE JOURNEY THAT HE WANTED RECORDED AND LEFT FOR HIS GRANDCHILDREN. HE TELLS ABOUT THE PEOPLE AND EXPERIENCES THAT HELPED IN FORMING HIS CHARACTER AS HE GROWS UP IN A SMALL VILLAGE IN THE HUDSON RIVER VALLEY. THE AUTHOR DESCRIBES THE PERIOD IN WHICH HE LIVED, BEGINNING WITH THE1920'S AND CONTINUING THROUGH THE 30'S AND 40'S....THE STORY IS A NOSTALGIC TRIP THROUGH HIS EARLY YEARS IN SCHOOL, ON HIS FIRST FULL TIME JOB DURING THE DEPRESSION, HIS BEGINNING AT COLLEGE AND ITS INTERRUPTION BY WORLD WAR II. HE TELLS OF HIS EXPOSURE TO THE DRAFT AND HIS TRAINING FOR AND PARTICIPATION IN COMBAT IN THE WAR. HE REVEALS HIS DEEP FEELINGS RELATED TO THESE EVENTS.... A PRE-PUBLICATION REVIEWER WROTE THE FOLLOWING: 'ON RARE OCCASIONS AN AUTOBIOGRAPHY NOT ONLY RELATES THE LIFE AND TIMES OF A MAN, BUT ALSO OFFERS A MEANINGFUL ADDITION TO OUR KNOWLEDGE OF AN ERA AND LOCALE WHERE HE LIVED. A BOY NAMED JOHN IS SUCH A WORK. JOHN BOHLANDER HAS ABLY CAPTURED HIS SCENE IN VIVID DETAIL, AND EVEN YOUNGER READERS WHO COULD NOT HAVE EXPERIENCED LIFE OF THE TWENTIES, THIRTIES, AND FORTIES WILL APPRECIATE AND BE ENGROSSED BY HIS EXPERIENCES. FILLED WITH FASCINATING AND HISTORICALLY VALUABLE EXPERIENCES, THIS IS A BOOK HEARTILY RECOMMENDED FOR ITS VERITABLE STOREHOUSE OF CHERISHED MEMORIES, REALISTIC PORTRAIT OF A MEMORABLE HUMAN BEING, AND PROFOUND INSIGHTS INTO LIFE."