A cable-TV pioneer’s candid memoir of a full life and terminal cancer, seeking meaning, love, and peace with honesty and humor.
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A cable-TV pioneer’s candid memoir of a full life and terminal cancer, seeking meaning, love, and peace with honesty and humor.
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Some people are born to lead and destined to teach--not by precept, but by the example of living life to the fullest. Peter Barton was that kind of person. He protested at Columbia University in the 1960s, played soul music at Harlem's Apollo Theater, spent time as a ski bum and a craps dealer, and eventually emerged from Harvard Business School to become a central figure in the creation of cable television. In the prime of his life, happily married and the father of three young children, Peter ...
What's Inside
will contain mild spoilers
Sexual content
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Marriage and love for wife and children central; no sexual content
Violence & gore
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Candid descriptions of pain and bodily decline from terminal illness
Profanity
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No evidence found in available sources
Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Personal secular faith, meaning-making, and spiritual questioning
Magic & witchcraft
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No magic or witchcraft present
Occult / demonology
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No occult or demonology content present
Political content
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Brief 1960s campus-protest background; media-industry context
Self-harm / suicide
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No self-harm or suicide content present
Abuse & suffering
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No abuse content present
Other
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Terminal stomach cancer, chemo, physical decline, and dying process central