In the Long Run: A Father, a Son, and Unintentional Lessons in Happiness

"Got an urgent ‘you've got to read this book' note from buddy Armen Keteyian, and I'm glad he was insistent . . . Good read, and some very good lessons." —Peter King, Sports Illustrated

It's 2008. Jim Axelrod—once among the most visible correspondents on network news, the first TV reporter to broadcast from Saddam International Airport in 2003, and CBS's chief White House correspondent—is covering Obama's end run on the Democratic nomination. He's forty-five and thirty pounds overweight. He'...