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The Self-Made Man: Adam Carolla
Posted December 22, 2011
Man, last week\'s column got a little teary-eyed, huh? Sheesh. You\'d think I was campaigning for a daytime Emmy or something. I mean, it\'s hard not to get into some real talk whe ...
Awesome Men Throughout History: Nikola Tesla
Posted December 20, 2011
Nearly everyone reading this grew up learning that Thomas Edison invented electricity, and a lot of people still believe that today. They are wrong. Edison was a coked-up patent th ...
The Self-Made Man: Fredrick Douglass
Posted December 15, 2011
Any column about self-made men that\'s worth anything owes a lot to Fredrick Douglass. For one thing, his lecture about self-made men is a must-read, a stunning piece of oratory wh ...
Awesome Men Throughout History: John Krubsack
Posted December 13, 2011
I must say, this week\'s Awesome Men subject ? John Krubsack ? caught me off guard. He was a banker, for one, and certain current events (meaning the last three years or so) have m ...
The Self Made Man: James Brown
Posted December 8, 2011
This week\'s Self Made Man Column, like the previous two, focuses on someone in the arts. But unlike John Waters, who grew up in stable upper-middle-class circumstances, or Steve ? ...
Awesome Men Throughout History: Henry Durkee
Posted December 6, 2011
This week\'s column is a special one to me, mostly because it involved some actual research on my part. A lot of my subjects, though obscure, have some kind of online presence that ...