Proud to Have Read PROUD!

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	• I'm Proud of You Tim Madigan Penguin Audio, 2006 - 1 pages average customer review:based on 32 reviews view larger image
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Proud to Have Read PROUD!

Author Tim Madigan, working as a Texas newspaper reporter in 1995, profiled children's TV show legend Mister Rogers. One assignment grew into a years-long friendship.

This is NOT a biography of Fred Rogers. However, "I'm Proud of You" is an uplifting tale of how Rogers remained the same loving, supportive soul that young viewers knew. As the journalist and the PBS icon exchanged letters and e-mails, Madigan recalled he felt as if "I was corresponding with God himself."

The author entrusted the ordained Presbyterian minister-turned-TV celebrity with his closest secrets. Rogers called these Madigan's "Furies." When Madigan divulged his shaky marriage in 1997, Rogers replied, "I would never forsake you." Madigan told Rogers of his stormy relationship with a father who never seemed satisfied with him. Rogers thereafter ended every letter and e-mail with "IPOY--I'm proud of you." When Madigan's younger brother Steve was dying of cancer, Rogers reached out again.

The two friends shared their love of reading with each other. Ironically, one of the books Rogers sent Madigan was "Tuesdays With Morrie." Perhaps Fred saw parallels in their own relationship? Madigan reflects with love and gratitude his spiritual bond with Fred Rogers, and how that friendship transformed his own roles of son, husband brother and father.

When Madigan penned a tribute to Fred Rogers following his 2003 death, hundreds of readers thanked him. "I was pleased to assure the readers that Fred Rogers and Mister Rogers were indeed one and the same, and that in real life Fred was as he appeared on television, the gentle embodiment of goodness and grace," he writes.

Anyone with past or present in their lives would be heartened by this book. I'm proud of Tim Madigan, too. He writes with humor, honesty and hope.

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Definitely Proud

The author, Tim Madigan, and I are close friends. Tim gave me a copy of the manuscript of his book in November 2005, when my mother was in hospice with terminal leukemia. My sister inquired about the manuscript when I brought it to the hospice and I mentioned to her Tim's friendship with Fred Rogers and what I knew about the subject of the book. She began reading the manuscript and completed it before I had barely started my reading and told me "this is a great book; it has a lot to do with what we are going through right now." I completed the manuscript while sitting at my mother's bedside a day or two prior to her death. To say that I was touched by this book would be a major understatement. The vulnerability, hope, strength and wisdom so eloquently expressed by Tim brought me closer to my mother, sister, children, nephews, other family members and friends who had gathered for the vigil at the hospice and to the God of my understanding. If you read this book, be prepared to be emotionally and spiritually enriched.

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