Customer Reviews:
 Have a box of tissues ready. May 28, 2006
14 out of 15 found this review helpful
In fact, have 2!
The book is an easy read. Every story makes a great point to be shared for generations. I'm sure it wasn't easy for Mr. Russert to select from the 60,000 letters/emails. Only another man with great character could recognize stories with great lessons.
This is a great gift not only for Father's Day but for anyone that needs a little comfort that they are doing ok as a father. I purchased the book for a friend, a young father, with equal integrity and character. A gift to let him know that he can stop worrying if he is being a good father. He and his wife are great parents and are good enough to be in that book. I used the intro page to let him know just that!
Great idea Mr. Russert ... great book.
So glad I still have him here May 25, 2006
6 out of 10 found this review helpful
wonderful and touching book. makes the reader sit back and appreciate the little things only you and Dad know.
A fount of wisdom from thousand sources May 25, 2006
5 out of 10 found this review helpful
Russert has accomplished a gigantic workload, and distilled, in this book,a very important aspect of human life.
The weight that our relationship with our fathers wields, becomes a little bit more transparent.
A courageous book, and unusual in its topic, but a must-read, even if you don't agree with many examples.
10 star great book May 24, 2006
93 out of 107 found this review helpful
Ok a book like this may seem sappy, but trust me there are enough stories and variety to speak to everyone. Personally I loved his chapters on fathers titled Forgiveness, The Protector, Baseball, Mr. Mom and Daddy's Girl.
Reminded me a great deal of Tom Brokaws book from people who wrote him after his excellent book The Greatest Generation which is also a must read book in my opinion.
Mr. Russert is such a gifted writer. The kind that you pray will write another book, and then another. There are enough stories of such a wide variety that the book will appeal to males as much as it will to females.
Great gift for Dads as well as their kids. Though provoking and so much wisdom that one comes away a wiser person. A wiser parent.
Mr. Russert and his wife Maureen have one son but having read Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life and then this book, one comes away wishing a dozen more had been dropped on their porch.
 Good Father's Day Material May 23, 2006
16 out of 20 found this review helpful
"Wisdom of Our Fathers" purports to help fathers to "get it right," and to understand that sometimes the little moments can make a big difference to a child. The book is the outgrowth of close to 60,000 overwhelmingly positive letters and e-mails about mostly ordinary men - sent to Russert in response to his earlier book about Tim's own father.
A big theme is that the most precious things a father can provide are time, attention, and love. Another is that many of the fathers were relatively silent and modest, while a third is how often the sons and daughters are often acutely aware of how their fathers never said "I love you."
While each person's story is short, they are well-focused, and do achieve Russert's objective. Getting there takes readers off to basic training, weddings, graduation, going to ball games, giving a child a new bicycle, helping a stranger, providing wisdom in short phrases, etc.
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