Summary: How is the American spirit holding up in these difficult times? Peter Funt, syndicated columnist and host of TV’s “Candid Camera,” looks beyond the headlines to find out. In his book “Cautiously Optimistic,” a collection of six dozen essays, Funt uses a light but penetrating touch to take the nation’s temperature. Funt’s canvas is very much like the real world we deal with every day. Sure, Americans are concerned about taxes, education and crime. But we also care about mobile apps that talk back to us, Paul McCartney’s hairdo, and raccoons that destroy our lawns. In “Cautiously Optimistic,” Peter Funt finds the good, the bad and the occasionally hilarious. These essays are designed to make you think, but also to smile. More below the media player. Listen to Peter Funt The Indie Author Life Peter Funt’s association with “Candid Camera” really did begin when he was just three, as he writes in an essay on the official “Candid Camera” website called “Things My Father Taught Me“: When I was three years old my father taught me how to swing a baseball bat. He also taught me how to hide a microphone in a shoeshine box. When I was 16 my father [...]Similar Posts:A Father’s Only True Legacy: LiesOne Family’s Story of Coming to AmericaWould You Stash the Body to Save the Party?This is Not How Childbirth is Supposed To GoFive Moons Craving a Hero The post Candidly, He’s Cautiously Optimistic appeared first on The Bookcast.
