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RIVER DARK AND BRIGHT
A MEMOIR
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This memoir by a lawyer, scholar and writer,
one of Washington's distinguished citizens and most uncommon men, relates experience of
competition and combat (in the boxing ring, the court room, business and WWII and on
mountain peaks) and of sitting in a chair with a book. From a life interwoven with the
experience of country and community, it comments on what had been observed, thought and
felt. And it reflects on childhood, parenthood, friendship, citizenship, writing,
booklearning, moral duties, death and other things.
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"I sought to fill the roles in which I had
been cast: Perform duties, adhere to principles, use skills, do some things well and have
some fun. At heart, however, I have longed not for virtue, power, wisdom, wealth or a
smile from God, but for glory. If offered one of what is God's I would forego the kingdom
and the power and take the glory. I would rather have been a hero than a saint, a sage or
a success." |
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