Brother Booker Ashe - It's Amazing What The Lord Can Do - Couverture souple

Thorn, Willy

Couverture souple

ISBN 13 : 9798233322808

Editeur : Willy Thorn, 2025

Synopsis

A biography of America's premier Black monk, aka Milwaukee's Ghetto Friar Tuck. Brother Booker Ashe was many things to many people. He was a famous clergyman, a civil rights leader, an inner city icon, a national black celebrity, a civic cornerstone, a chef, a theatrical buff, and a brother to all. Talented, charismatic, dynamic and multifaceted - everyone who met the man has a different story to tell. America's premier black monk... an inner city institution ... the Black Friar Tuck ... the Black Ghetto Santa Claus ... Milwaukee's greatest humanitarian .... a beggar and a provider ... a Mother Theresa Type ... a preacher and theatrical director... a gambler and a chain smoker .... a modern day Gandhi ... an Ecclesastical pimp for Christ ... a chef and artist .... a civil rights icon and proclaimer of love... a man of effusive ebullient goodness ... a humble black man with a compelling voice of love ... a sign of the revolution being accomplished in the Roman Catholic Church and the Franciscan family ... a Black man clad in brown robes taking Christ's teachings to the poor ... a big man with a hearty laugh and a twinkle in his eye that belies the seriousness that underlies his life ... the hood's Robin Hood ... The Star of Walnut Street

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Willy Thorn is a communications expert & artistic renaissance man. He is a journalist & copywriter, teacher, author & artist.

He has lived many places, beginning with Milwaukee & Rome & Minnesota & central Wisconsin. Among his other homes are Washington DC & Baltimore, Chicago & the Twin Cities, St. Francis South Dakota, the Bay Area & Shanghai. He currently lives & works in Bangkok.

Thorn has a Masters Degree in Journalism & has spent time as a Capitol Hill reporter & wire editor, sports writer, political columnist & arts critic. Other media endeavors include public relations campaigns, magazine feature writing, ghostwritten biographies & time on the radio - as a DJ & on-air host, play-by-play sports announcer & music promoter.

He has spent nearly a decade as a language specialist for Craft Worldwide & as a copywriter & creative for McCann Worldgroup. He currently works as senior copywriter at Quo Global branding agency in Bangkok.

He has won awards at Cannes Lions & been recognized for sports writing & political columns, magazine features, theatre scripts, religious publications & photography.

Thorn is also a photographer & classical oil painter, trained thru the Corcoran Gallery in Washington DC. His artistic c.v. includes photography gallery shows; sculpting in Mamallapuram, India; concrete statuary at Wat Xieng Mouane, in Luang Prabang, Laos; and flower petal mosaics in Cagli, Italy.

He is a Buddhist meditation instructor; trained thru Thailand's renowned Willpower Institute. And he was even the rare foreigner to complete the entire six month course in spoken & written Thai. He currently sits as an advisor on the institute's English Foreign Language subcommittee - where he translates books, helps develop outreach programs & occasionally lectures.

He proudly notes a Master's Degree from Marquette University & books in both Washington's Library of Congress & the Vatican Archives in Rome.

His catalog is varied & he has written extensively about a number of subjects - including sports, politics, religion, Buddhist philosophy & Asian history & art. One of his largest endeavors was documenting & cataloguing several hundred temples in Bangkok, Ayutthaya, Yangon, Vientiane & Kuala Lumpur.

His catalog is available thru the following distributors: Am...

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Willy Thorn
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 13: 9798233322808
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 290
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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