Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime

By Bill Gates Sr., Mary Ann Mackin

Categories: Biographies & Memoirs

Showing Up for Life: Thoughts on the Gifts of a Lifetime (2009) gathers stories from Seattle lawyer and civic leader Bill Gates Sr., written with Mary Ann Mackin with a foreword from his son Bill Gates. In several dozen short narratives arranged roughly in order, he recalls growing up during the Great Depression, a scoutmaster who taught him teamwork, raising his children and his work with the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, drawing lessons on hard work, getting along, keeping a confidence and speaking out.

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