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Man of the Hour
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Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st
Format: Bargain Price
Label: Little, Brown and Company
Manufacturer: Little, Brown and Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 424
Publication Date: March 31, 1999
Publisher: Little, Brown and Company
Studio: Little, Brown and Company
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Editorial Review:
David Fitzgerald is a 40-year-old English teacher with the rare ability to reach at least some of his students at a poor high school in Coney Island. But one who he can't reach is Nasser Hamdy, a Palestinian boy so scarred by hate that he joins with terrorists to plant a bomb in a school bus. A combination of accident and courage turns Fitzgerald into a media hero when he keeps most of his class from boarding the bus and then risks his life to rescue a pregnant teenager who got on early. But circumstantial factors quickly turn the tide and make Fitzgerald a prime suspect in the bombing. He is savaged by the system but never officially accused.
Blauner does everything well, from creating compelling scenes of urban terror, to making us believe in Fitzgerald as a gifted teacher, loving father, and exhausted husband. Blauner's background as a journalist also makes the media reaction within the story instantly credible--humanizing at least one member of the ravening media rat pack.
Catch Blauner's two previous thrillers: Slow Motion Riot and The Intruder, both available in paperback. --Dick Adler
A finely crafted suspense novel about heroism in everyday life, "Man of the Hour" is about a Brooklyn high school teacher who becomes famous for saving his students from a bomb. But when he becomes a suspect in the case, his life is turned upside down--and finding the real bomber appears to be his only way out.
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Rating:  - Book of the Hour!
Both Man of the Hour and The Intruder get 5 stars.
More anxiety than action, more for the thinking reader.
Rating: - An ordinary man in extraordinary times
Jihad comes to New York in Blauner's "Man Of The Hour," a Richard Jewell-like story of heroism gone sour. Enthusiastic inner-city English teacher David Fitzgerald saves his class from a terrorist bomb, becoming a feted media-darling until circumstances paint him as the prime suspect and his life is savaged more brutally than it was ever celebrated.
The reader knows from the beginning that tormented Nasser Hamdy, one of Fitzgerald's former students, is the bomber. Blauner's sympathetic ... Read More
Rating: - what is a hero?
This novel is about David Fitzgerald, an above average teacher at New York's Coney Island High School. He is teaching his student's about character's in literature and what being a hero, or being tested is. David becomes a hero and then is tested by becoming a pariah. The media put's him on a pedestal and than cut's the pedestal down in a matter of hour's.
The character's the author creates become people we care about and empathize with, even the mad bomber.
Rating: - Decent Audiobook Fare...
There was a lot more to this tape than it seemed at first "reading." At first, I found myself a little wary of a terrorist plot, given how the very subject is super-charged with anxiety. The plot, however, was more about a young man caught in very conflicting societies and belief systems, a teacher who wants to be better than he believes he is, and a sister's love of her brother making it near impossible to do the right things.
The plot is basically itself quite straightforward: a teacher is ... Read More
Rating:  - Incomplete
Having read this book post-9/11, I found some of the references to Afganistan and the mindset of the bomber and his comrades very interesting. However, I was disappointed that many of the characters were described so vividly but then they disappear and never are mentioned again. So what was the point? I gave this book to my mother-in-law. I told her that I didn't want it back. It's not a "keeper" and I don't recommend purchasing it.
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