To Soar, Like Icarus

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To Soar, Like Icarus is written by Alan J. Yates and published by WestBow Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 1490734031 (ISBN 10) and 9781490734033 (ISBN 13).

The hero of this book was working in a coal mine at age twelve. Despite his lack of education, he pulled himself up to become a highly successful businessman. There is something quintessentially heroic about defying the hopeless hand one was dealt . . . and turning it into straight aces. The fact that our hero John lost it all on another gamble just makes him more truly human and fragile. "From pride, from greed, he fell anew; by woman's wiles was pierced through. Like Icarus, he flew too high and tried too hard to touch the sky."