Father and Glorious Descendant
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By LITTLE, BROWN
FATHER had numerous maxims by which he wished Glorious Descendant to live — “Seek a good name before gain”; “Without the family, the individual is nothing”; “Without the rain of generosity no friendship blooms.” Even when he, along with practically everybody else in San Francisco’s Chinatown, lost heavily in the 1929 stock market crash, Father used the event to instruct his Stanford-trained son: See how gambling devours a man, he pointed out ruefully. How Glorious Descendant struggled to make his way unhampered as an American, and yet was responsive to the older traditional bonds of his race — this is the essence of an engaging autobiography.