Congrats Cort
on the recent release of
on the recent release of
Not Your Father's America!
Not Your Father's America: An Adventure Raising Triplets in a Country Being Changed by Greed by Cort Casady
Parenting & Family Humor, 240 pages
Published January 17, 2023 by Chandler Press
A compelling and humorous page-turner that combines two narratives: one an account of the emotional struggle to have a family, the shock of having triplets, and the challenge of raising them; the other a timely and insightful commentary on changes taking place in the America the triplets are inheriting.
The world is constantly changing — technology, sports, the environment, politics. So how do you raise a new generation of children in a country that’s changed so much from when you were a kid? In his humorous and heartwarming memoir longtime Hollywood producer Cort Casady exposes the emotional turmoil, joys and challenges of bringing up triplets in an America vastly changed from the one in which he was raised.
Barbara and Cort were a happily married couple when they decided to have children. But they had no idea the struggle and dangers they would face getting pregnant, as well as a heartbreaking loss. When the couple finally become pregnant and safely deliver triplets, they must dive in — overwhelmed and outnumbered — to face the exhausting and unrelenting demands of caring for three babies at once.
Following the boys as they grow up, Casady includes numerous anecdotes, stories and ingenious discoveries that every parent can appreciate. Through it all, the author offers insightful commentary about his father’s America, the America he and his brothers were raised in, and the America his sons are inheriting, all while examining how economic injustice, deregulation and greed are affecting and undermining the American experience.
Not Your Father’s America is a vivid account of an extraordinary family forged out of determination, patience, acceptance, discipline and love — lots of love.
(I love to note the first lines of the books I'm reading. First lines can really grab a reader's attention and I love seeing where the author takes the reader after their first line.)
First line—"I met Barbara Mercer Kellard through mutual friends in October 1979."
Having one baby at a time is a challenge. Having three at once is unfathomable to me. Cort Casady takes the reader on the journey he and his wife went through, with all the ups and downs, while also giving us a look at our America as it is now, as it was when he was growing up, and as it was in his father's time. Some things remain the same but so many things are so, so different.
While the Casady's were better off financially so better able to afford the help they needed than most regular middle class people who might be in the midst of raising triplets, they still struggled with the logistics, planning, and cost of the three little angels who entered their family all at once. I can't even imagine.
Mr. Casady highlighted the struggles, as well as the triumphs, of their lives in a very entertaining way. He also commented on the America that we are living in now and how this will impact their sons and others of their generation while also comparing it to the world that his father lived in. That was an interesting comparison and gave me something to think about.
I enjoyed Not Your Father's America, for the story about the highs and lows of conceiving and raising triplets but also for making me think about our America and what changes may need to be made to make it a better place to live.
I received an ARC of Not Your Father's America and this is my honest opinion.
About the author
Cort Casady has won two Emmy Awards and three NAACP Image Awards for his work as a television and documentary writer-producer. He won his first Emmy for New York at Night Starring Clint Holmes, a daily, live, prime time variety-talk series he created for Superstation WWOR-New York (1992). He won his second Emmy for the American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award: A Tribute to Mel Brooks (2014). His numerous credits include creating the original story and characters for the five-installment TV movie mini-series Kenny Rogers as The Gambler, helping to format and launch the long-running reality competition series, Star Search with Ed McMahon, a forerunner of American Idol, and co-creating television’s first weekly environmental series. Launched as Earthbeat, the series aired as Network Earth on TBS for five years.
Since 2003, Cort has served as supervising producer of the annual American Film Institute (AFI) Life Achievement Award tributes to America’s leading actors and filmmakers. He has also written a number of televised music-documentary specials benefiting the United Negro College Fund (UNCF), including televised tributes to R&B legends Quincy Jones, Stevie Wonder (2007 Image Award winner), Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson (2009 Image Award winner), Patti LaBelle, Lionel Richie (2011 Image Award winner), and Chaka Khan.
Cort is the coauthor of two previously published books: The Singing Entertainer (with John Davidson, Alfred Publishing), a handbook for professionals, and You Oughta Be Me: How to Be a Lounge Singer and Live Like One by the Fabulous Bud E. Luv (with Ned Claflin, St. Martin’s Press), a humorous faux autobiography. Casady is also the co-author with Mary Miller of the musical play King of the Road: The Roger Miller Story, which had its world premiere at the Laguna Playhouse in Laguna Beach, California.
Cort began his show business career as a commercial coordinator at KNBC-TV in Burbank prior to becoming a production assistant on the Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour; he was subsequently made vice president of the Los Angeles production of the rock musical Hair because he was the only person in the company with a clean police record. If the play had been busted for its notorious nude scene, Casady would have been the individual arrested. Cort saw to it that the play was never busted. After Hair became a hit, Casady joined veteran personal manager Ken Kragen in a management and production company representing Kenny Rogers, Mason Williams, Jennifer Warnes, John Hartford, and John Stewart. Cort left artist management to become an investigative magazine writer, author, songwriter, and television writer-producer. ~ Author's website
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