{"product_id":"9780930501235","title":"World's Thinnest Fat Man","description":"\u003cp\u003eAn Excerpt: \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSome decades back, a Quaker named Richard Millhouse Nixon\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewrote a book entitled \u003cem\u003eSix Crises. \u003c\/em\u003eAn opposition psychiatrist was\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003equick to pick up on this title and note that President Nixon saw his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003elife in typically manic-depressive fashion. Psychiatry and politics and\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereligion aside, I suspect many of us perceive our lives just as that past-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePresident did: if not in crises, at least in watersheds where we choose\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eone muddy river path over another; then fall onto or avoid a sunning\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecottonmouth; where we either sadly stumble over or gladly hop over\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethe mighty snag of regret.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eSo what did Josey learn from Mr. Garner's visit and those\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003euntimely deaths? I'd like to say-my friend, I'd truly like to say-\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ethat he absorbed a myriad of lessons. But he's forever been unable to\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eassimilate even a damned comic book moral, much less true epiphany's\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003einspiration. In consequence he views himself not as a higher spiritual\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebeing, not even as a genetically select, silken white rat capable of\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econquering life's mazes, but rather as the world's thinnest fat man, \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003econtinually stunning crowds below by tossing off some dazzling jewel. . .\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Swallow's Tale Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46236820963569,"sku":"9780930501235","price":7.47,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0674\/5433\/7265\/files\/9780930501235_p0.jpg?v=1765396259","url":"https:\/\/shop.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780930501235","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble","version":"1.0","type":"link"}