In today’s episode, guest hosted by lawyer turned 5th grade school teacher turned 18th Century docent, Janet Wade, who happens to be married to host Landis Wade, we visit with Bob Deans, author of “The Bicycle Man,” a novel that allows the reader to experience the emotional and turbulent headlines of 1968 as seen through the eyes of a young paperboy.

Bob Deans started out in the news business when he was ten years old, delivering his hometown paper, the "Richmond Times-Dispatch." He spent three decades as a reporter for "The Post & Courier" of Charleston, S.C., and "The Atlanta Journal-Constitution," including four years as Chief Asia Correspondent, based in Tokyo, and eight years covering the White House and he's a former president of the White House Correspondents' Association

Major Garrett, Chief Washington Correspondent, CBS News, says of the book: “Lyrical, lustrous and tender. Deans is a craftsman, and the words here flow with certainty, truth and ache, taking us into the promise, discovery and heart of a boy as the world outside both marches forward and encroaches on his own. A beautiful and captivating story.”

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