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Hey, dad. (Or soon-to-be dad.) We get it. You’re busy. You’re distracted. You’re under pressure. But you do love your kids more than anything. You want them to have really good lives. You’re doing the best you can. But you know what, you can do better. The ideas in this book can help. Try two or three or five and you’ll be a better dad. Maybe a whole lot better. So, dad. You’re in. You just made a big commitment. 1 hour.

You can live a better life. Start here. Start now. Disruption is everywhere. We’ve never seen anything like it in our lifetimes. Positive disruption will be the most powerful force for success you’ll ever encounter. Advancement, personal or professional, means abrupt, explosive change. Every team member, every entrepreneur, every leader needs to buy in, needs to disrupt. Every wife, husband, partner, child needs to be involved with this life-changing strategy. That’s the bottom line: leading a better life.

Dad, your new life begins in one hour. I did the homework, so you don’t have to do as much. I talked to lots of experts, and lots of dads, and lots of experts who are also dads. I read everything I could. Then I wrote and rewrote this book, filled with steps you can take to become a better dad.

His best stories are the stories of his life. His father grew up in a New York poorhouse called the 'Pogie'. He worked at a psychiatric hospital where he met the singer James Taylor and the poet Robert Lowell. Both were patients. He was at Woodstock and was also an usher at the Fillmore East. He was CEO of advertising agency J. Walter Thompson North America when he was thirty-seven. He wrote the ad jingle, 'I'm a Toys 'R' Us Kid'. He once watched Norman Mailer and James Baldwin square off to fight. He's played golf with three US presidents and has nine holes-in-one.

bandit country is written in the very particular dialect of the Irish border, as Ulster Scots and Ulster Gaelic shade into the language and culture of post-Celtic Tiger Ireland. Spectres of characters both mythic and real thread through these poems, giving them a slippery, ghostly quality. bandit country is a haunting exploration of this place and its people, looking back to the Troubles and forward towards Brexit—and to the ever-looming fences and boundaries with which we must reckon, collectively and urgently.

How did a boy from small-town New York become the world’s most successful writer? How does he do it? He has always wanted to write the kind of novel that would be read and reread so many times that the binding breaks and the book literally falls apart. As he says, “I’m still working on that one.”