ASIN: B00KFRD53M
Publisher: Amazon.com Services LLC
Pages: 195
“Anatomy is destiny,” Freud famously wrote. Is that really true? Since caveman times, humans have had practically sacred attitudes towards height. Bill Walker, a 6'11 1/2 globetrotter, has produced a highly entertaining book—Tall Tales—on this much underrated subject. Walker ruthlessly submerges his ego to tell a ream of strange, but true, real-life stories. These include flunking the physical to enter the U.S. Army, suffering rejection by horrified members of the opposite sex, and being treated like a wild animal escaped from the zoo in foreign countries.Walker expands the discussion beyond himself to include some intriguing issues:--the infamous Napoleonic short man's complex. And how about its inverse for tall people--the ostrich complex? --What is one to make of the avalanche of studies that show tall people consistently make more money than their shorter counterparts, and win ...
