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Turkey Recall in America | Guest: Mike Rowe & Peggy Rowe
About My Mother features a foreword from Rowe’s son – Executive Producer, Show Host, and Podcaster, Mike Rowe, who has helped to make his mother a favorite among his “little Facebook friends” (as coined by Peggy) with a regular bit he calls, “Mondays with Mother,” where he shares her humorous antics with more than 5 million Facebook friends. Mike’s fans have turned out in droves to support About My Mother, which now has 76,000+ followers on its own Facebook page in just a few weeks.
“It never fails. Every time I involve my mother in a TV show or a commercial campaign, she upstages me,” says Rowe. “Now, just as I was preparing to write a book of my own, she cranks out a feel-good hit of the summer. And I’m not even in it! Typical.”
Within hours of the book’s pre-release on Amazon last week it made numerous bestsellers lists for the online retailer, and received so many orders that the “pre-order” button malfunctioned. Currently, About My Motheris ranked in the top 50 of books on Amazon.
“It’s a delight to work with Peggy,” says Merkh. “Her humor has been evident as I’ve followed her on Mike’s platforms. The journey for this book started in a very unorthodox way and I’m happy to help it continue to redefine the way publishing is done today. Who knew that ‘America’s Grandmother’ could be an industry disruptor?!”
About My Mother:
There's a Thelma Knobel in everyone's life. She's the person taking charge—the one who knows instinctively how things should be. Today, Thelma would be described as an alpha personality. But while growing up, her daughter, Peggy, saw her as a dictator–albeit a benevolent, loving one. They clashed from the beginning: Peggy, the horse-crazy tomboy, and Thelma, a genteel controlling mother, committed to raising two refined, ladylike daughters.
When major league baseball came to town in the early 1950s and turned sophisticated Thelma into a crazed Baltimore Orioles groupie, nobody was more surprised and embarrassed than Peggy. Life became a series of compromises–Thelma tolerating a daughter who pitched
manure and galloped the countryside, while Peggy learned to tolerate the whacky Orioles fan who threw her underwear at the TV, shouted insults at umpires, and lived by the orange and black schedule taped to the refrigerator door.
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