5/8/2023 0 Comments The good neighbor maxwell kingBased on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, The Good Neighbor traces Rogers's personal, professional, and artistic life through decades of work. Rogers treated with sober seriousness notions that the rest of us regard as platitudes - “Love thy neighbor” - and devotedly lived them out. The Good Neighbor is the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers. The man was deep - a quality that distinguished him from the characters featured in other children’s shows, from Soupy Sales and Captain Kangaroo to, later, Barney the Dinosaur and Elmo the helium-voiced Muppet. He was no superficial cartoon of niceness. But, as King is at pains to demonstrate, Rogers wasn’t just about feeling good. Fred Rogers (19282003) was an enormously influential figure. King, a former journalist who now leads the nonprofit Pittsburgh Foundation, offers the full complement of heartwarming, feel-good stories we would expect from a book about Mister Rogers. The Good Neighbor: The Life and Work of Fred Rogers by Maxwell King. The life of Fred Rogers - yes, he had one outside the confines of the living room where each day he changed into a cardigan and sneakers on camera - is recounted in “The Good Neighbor,” a new biography by Maxwell King. “Look for the helpers”: a small gift, one of many, for which we can thank the children’s television personality Mister Rogers.
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