Book Review...

A "tell all" book has now surfaced concerning the life and times of an extraordinary entrepreneur and bon vivant known personally to this reviewer...His remarkable life, though often doubted in some details by his detractors as at least partly imagination, is now chronicled in "Memoirs" by Daniel Warvelle Harbaugh...Editorial duties were credited to Truckman, who stands responsible for any misspellings and grammatical errors...

During my time spent proofreading I also had the opportunity to examine the mountain of documentary evidence offered as verification of the incredible life events of the author, who apparently has saved every scrap of paper and photograph associated with his nine-decade tenure on this planet...Those who doubted his exploits as a businessman, prospector for gold, military serviceman, flyer and even oiler aboard the doomed Edmund Fitzgerald now fall strangely silent...

The now semi-retired Mr. Harbaugh records his beginnings from birth through his education and brief lawless period into his beginnings as a businessman...His military service in WWII interrupted his climb through the branches of life's tree into various adventures as a pilot, surveyor, ski lodge operator and civilian employee of the US Army in Vietnam and the Mideast...His clandestine operations with unnamed intelligence agencies in South East Asia led to another period as a shipowner and salvage/import/export operator...

Mr. Harbaugh pulls no punches even to himself as he depicts his lean years as a desert wanderer and bawdy-house piano player...Self-described as "One of The Race Of Men That Don't Fit In," he continues to this day as a social commentator and humorist on the famous Cracker Barrel Discussion Forums, as well as a critic and advisor to Houston's City Council...

His careers also extended to brief stints in the motion picture industry, and he even found time for several dalliances with fashionable ladies, some of which led to marriage...The book is an easy and entertaining read lavishly illustrated with the author's own photos, drawings and documents collected over a remarkable lifetime...Adding a further career as a writer to his lengthy list of credits, Mr. Harbaugh's other published works can be found under his own name as well as his pseudonym...

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