With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart, Book Two, How Do You Know? [NOOK Book]

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When you’re eighteen you don’t get tired, you don’t get cold, nothing terrible will ever happen, and you can do anything with one hand tied behind your back.
Read the single volume of With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart or the three-part rendition, all on your Nook. In both versions say hello to Gail Stuart, an 18-year old college freshman falsely accused of stealing a midterm Geology test.
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When you’re eighteen you don’t get tired, you don’t get cold, nothing terrible will ever happen, and you can do anything with one hand tied behind your back.
Read the single volume of With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart or the three-part rendition, all on your Nook. In both versions say hello to Gail Stuart, an 18-year old college freshman falsely accused of stealing a midterm Geology test.
Presuming they’re nabbed, typical test thieves get an F for the test, possible expulsion, and—if the police are involved—arrest for a high misdemeanor. Unfortunately for Gail, new information makes the case a felony despite the fact that the word evidence seems to have disappeared.
Gail is then joined by bribable and buyable administrators, dodging and ducking department heads, a cowardly martinet from the Board of Regents, and a babble of noble, corrupt, and partly corrupt students, fraternity hacks, instructors, proprietary secretaries, anxious editors, sleazy reporters, attorneys, cops, and local citizens, all either hoping Gail is innocent or that he takes the rap.
How he overcomes his dilemma is further convoluted by other avocations and unplanned adventures, a full course schedule, a sorority hasher’s job, a fraternity membership, a couple of physical altercations, and even his own retail business.
With One Hand Tied Behind His Back also presents the Stuart family. Roderick Bruce Stuart II, Gail’s father, is a descendant of Charles II of England. His family has lived in Minneapolis since the 1860s. Gail’s mother, Charlotte Fairfax Stuart, comes from renegade Swiss mercenaries, degenerate French apaches, and more civilized Virginia farmers. Find out what she does with her life and how it influences her son.
Finally, With One Hand Tied Behind His Back presents the Midwest college scene of 1954 where the expanding economy of post World War II and the GI Bill have increased the number of students, including women. One of them, the self-assured and competent Rebecca Brickerhaus, will share an adventure or two and fall in love with Gail Stuart. Ah, yes. How could it be otherwise?
A quick reminder. With One Hand Tied… is available in a single volume or a three-part edition sub-titled Book One: What is So?, Book Two: How Do You Know?, and Book Three: What Do You Do?
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Todd Rutherford
With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart is Dick Ramsey's story of reason, logic, and values thrown topsy-turvy to enable expediency and a quick fix. Justice then becomes another word for happenstance & luck

Ramsey presents Gail Stuart, a first-year college student falsely accused of stealing a midterm exam. Although the university's game is rigged to favor the impossible to define greater good over the individual, his accusers have picked on the wrong guy
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Product Details

  • BN ID: 2940011811470
  • Publisher: Patch Pocket Press
  • Publication date: 10/6/2010
  • Series: Gail Stuart Series , #1
  • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
  • Format: eBook
  • File size: 414 KB

Meet the Author

Dick Ramsey has an extensive background in book publishing, retail marketing, merchandising, public relations, and advertising sales. His interests also include history, philosophy, and how personal values affect morality and principle.
The idea for With One Hand Tied Behind His Back included having protagonist Gail Stuart, a first year college student, wrongly accused of a crime by administrators perceived as entirely moral and above reproach. Then, in between juggling his business, classes, activities, and other adventures, Gail’s consistent use reason, logic, and principle, would beat them at their own game.
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  • Posted October 28, 2010

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    A must read real-life situation portraying the challenges one has to overcome to achieve justice.

    With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart is Dick Ramsey's story of reason, logic, and values thrown topsy-turvy to enable expediency and a quick fix. Justice then becomes another word for happenstance and luck. Ramsey presents Gail Stuart, a first-year college student falsely accused of stealing a midterm exam. Although the university's game is rigged to favor the impossible to define greater good over the individual, his accusers have picked on the wrong guy. The story of Gail's exoneration is a classic example of a forthright individual trouncing a gaggle of supercilious, unprincipled administrators at their own game. But the story also asks: Is the function of government in a free society to rely on the natural development of independent, responsible, self sufficient and formidable individuals who will keep it free? Or, should government strive to develop only socially cooperative, self-doubting, dependent wimps who need a consensus before crossing a street? Along the way the reader either delights or bristles at a continuous line-up of characters whose reputations vary in degree from worthy to worthless. All have some bearing on whether Gail is found innocent or guilty as he tries to handle a full course load, a fraternity membership, and a sorority hasher's job while operating his own retail business. Also presented is Rebecca, a math and physics whiz who falls in love with Gail. How Gail saves Rebecca's day in an altercation with a student renegade is, by itself, worth the read. Ramsey also explores the history of the Stuart Family and how they came from Scotland to America in the 1850s, eventually settling in Minneapolis. He also tells the story of Gail's mother, Charlotte Fairfax Stuart, decendent of Swiss and French forebears who were hardly fans of civilization. Fortunately, she was raised by the more refined British side of the family in Winnetka, Illinois. Then, World War I causes a change that affects her education and attitudes and is later reflected in her steel-like hold on principle as she conducts her own life and influences Gail as he is growing up. Finally, Ramsey's Midwest setting in the 1950s provides a compelling picture of college life and the social atmosphere of the time. It's often funny, producing knowing smiles and even belly laughs. It is also serious, comparing the uplifting character of the wholesome and forthright to the debilitating inconsistencies and hypocrisy of the unprincipled and unscrupulous. With One Hand Tied Behind His Back: The Life and Times of Gail Stuart is divided into three parts, What is So?, How Do You Know?, and What Do You Do? It is available in one volume or in single volumes of each part. One Hand Tied is a must read for students, school administrators, editors, the general public, anyone interested in political and moral philosophy, historical sagas, and the hard facts of running a retail business. Ramsey's story presents a real life situation portraying the challenges one has to overcome to achieve justice.

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