Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment
Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike. For all of these accomplished persons, stuttering was an enormous difficulty. None had a sure-fire remedy. Most had to blunder and stumble through. The persistence and courage they displayed tells us that there might be ways we too can survive and achieve--despite our own difficulties.
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Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment
Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike. For all of these accomplished persons, stuttering was an enormous difficulty. None had a sure-fire remedy. Most had to blunder and stumble through. The persistence and courage they displayed tells us that there might be ways we too can survive and achieve--despite our own difficulties.
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Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment

Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment

by Gerald R. McDermott
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Famous Stutterers: Twelve Inspiring People Who Achieved Great Things while Struggling with an Impediment

by Gerald R. McDermott

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Moses, Aristotle, Civil War hero Joshua Chamberlain, King George VI, Winston Churchill, Marilyn Monroe, distinguished historian Peter Brown, TV journalist John Stossel, Senator's wife Annie Glenn, ABC correspondent Byron Pitts, novelist John Updike. For all of these accomplished persons, stuttering was an enormous difficulty. None had a sure-fire remedy. Most had to blunder and stumble through. The persistence and courage they displayed tells us that there might be ways we too can survive and achieve--despite our own difficulties.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498282307
Publisher: Wipf & Stock Publishers
Publication date: 10/12/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 158
File size: 724 KB

About the Author

Gerald R. McDermott is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. He is the author or editor of seventeen books. He is also a stutterer.
Gerald R. McDermott is Anglican Chair of Divinity at Beeson Divinity School. He is the author or editor of seventeen books. He is also a stutterer.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments ix

Introduction xi

1 Heavy of tongue: Moses 1

2 Hindered in speech: Aristotle 15

3 The stutterer who wasn't: Demosthenes 21

4 Civil War hero: Joshua Chamberlain 28

5 The king who gave "The Speech": George VI 38

6 The strange roar of "The Last Lion": Winston Churchill 50

7 It's painful: Marilyn Monroe 60

8 Historian and international lecturer: Peter Brown 69

9 Award-winning TV journalist: John Stossel 76

10 Astronauts wife with the right stuff: Annie Glenn 86

11 ABC News correspondent: Byron Pitts 94

12 America's "last true man of letters": John Updike 106

13 Twelve lessons for stutterers (and the rest of us) 119

Endnotes 131

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