Title:	HURDLING THE BARRIO (ENGLISH)
Review:	Not quite so spectacular as Casanova's Memoires de J. Casanova de Seingalt or as Cellini's The Life of Benvenuto Cellini, written by himself, David Hernandez's Memoir presents the true life story [without the exaggerations of his predecessors] of a professor who invaded more boudoirs than most men enter in a lifetime. There was Abelard and Heloise and there was David and Wendy, whose love story suffers nothing in comparison to the classic couple's. The latter couple outstripped the former in having produced three lovely children. Together they shared and suffered the trials and tribulations throughout their careers in college teaching, government, business, and raising a family until her untimely tragic death. The story talks about how David Hernandez was born in Chicago at the pre-dawn of the Depression, was raised by a widowed mother of six dependents in a country whose language and culture were wholly foreign to her. In poverty and without a wholesome learning environment at home or role models that would inspire or show him a path to a better life or a way of lifting himself above the station into which he was born, he did not come to read his first book until his junior year in college - at the age of twenty-seven. Yet, he was able to become a professional musician, earn a Ph. D., become a university professor of language, literature, history, and culture in both English and Spanish, and publish poetry and articles (in English and Spanish) in the USA and Mexico, and the book Missing in America: Freedom, Justice, and honor, that in college and university circles has elicited lively, even heated, discussion for its exceptional stance on such controversial themes. Biography David Hernandez studied at the universities of Florida State University, University of Illinois, from where he received his Ph. D., and did post-graduate study at the University of Barcelona. He has taught English and Spanish at a number of universities and colleges around the country. Has been interviewed on television discussing his book. Apart from his writing, music, academic and business interests, he has been active in the theater, political and sports activities.
Author:	David Hernandez
Publisher:	digiLibro
Price:	$9.95 USD
ISBN:
Pages:	232
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Format:	Electronic, 1024x768 pixels resolution. Electronic, resolution 1024 x 768 pixels. It includes an index with direct links to chapters.
File size:	4 Mb
Images:	Colour pictures
Subject:	Narrative

• FORWARD
• CHAPTER 1:
  • A Child Is Born - By the Whims of Fate
  • Dear Ol' Sunny School Days
• CHAPTER 2:
  • Leaving God and Other Childish Things Behind
  • The Big Bang Awakening
  • From D-day to V-day to the Atomic Age
• CHAPTER 3:
  • Fallen Out of the Nest
  • Last Call for the 'A' Train
• CHAPTER 4:
  • Cutting the Umbilical Cord
  • Champaign - a Crucible, Not a Drink
• CHAPTER 5:
  • Crossing the Rubicon
  • Waking After a Bad Dream
  • Some Dreams Come True, Even Impossible Ones
• CHAPTER 6:
  • Straddling Two Continents
  • Merrie Ole England and a Pretty Lass
• CHAPTER 7:
  • Back Home: A Rude Awakening
  • A First-born and Sunny Spain
  • University of Illinois Revisited
  • The Odds Fell in Candy's Favor