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 enlarge | Authors: Linda Armstrong Kelly, Joni Rodgers
Creator: Lance Armstrong
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Media: Hardcover
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Pages: 288
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Dimensions (in): 9.3 x 6.4 x 1
ISBN: 076791855X
Dewey Decimal Number: 796.62092
EAN: 9780767918558
ASIN: 076791855X
Publication Date: April 5, 2005
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Fast shipping on birthday present July 26, 2005
Last minute birthday shopping arrived faster than predicted! My sister loved it!
Motivational, great read - can't put it down July 11, 2005
This was the most amazing story I have ever read. I am so happy that Linda was kind enough to share this part of her life with us. As a single mom I could totally relate to what she was going through with raising a child alone and putting him first in her life. She shows all of us the challenge, privelege and self-satisfaction of being a dedicated mother.
I think that she also provides a lot of insight as to what makes a good healthy relationship. Thank God she found that in her fourth marriage. It goes to show that if you want one and can take the time to go through counseling or other self-discovery then you will know how to recognize that and get it.
Her life philosophy is right on the money - her story is moving. You can't put it down - it is truly the best autobiography I have ever read. Would highly recommend to all, especially for moms and single moms. Where there is a will there is a way and you should always have hope. You should also encourage your children when they have ambitions - even if those are not inline with your own.
I am sure that Lance would not be where he is today without his mom. She shows that a positive decision - keeping your baby - can have a more positive outcome than anyone ever dreamed possible. And you are always a more whole person when you are part of something so big.
SUPER MOM AND MORE June 26, 2005
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This is a story about Lance Armstrong's mother, but it is more a book about parenting and choices that people make. Linda Armstrong Kelly has made some interesting choices in her life, some good and some bad, but she seems to have gotten through them with a great attitude, and that is what I learned from this book. Oviously we wouldn't be reading this book, if she wasn't the mother of the 6 times Tour de France winner, but I found her insight into many topics interesting. She wrote honestly about not getting along with her mother and about other topics. She wrote about her one husband that beat her, another husband that was a womanizer and another that was a drinker. I liked that she changed the names of her past husbands in the story to protect them and her. She wrote about her worries when Lance would get hurt and especially when he was getting treated with Cancer which was very touching. I would suggest this book to Mothers who want to read an inspiring story. I enjoyed reading this book and recommend it highly.
The Power Behind the Throne of Victory May 24, 2005
6 out of 8 found this review helpful
Linda, a "natural blonde" with a bombshell attack on life, has put together this behind-the-scenes look at life with Lance Armstrong, a miracle kid who became one of America's favorite heroes.
Linda was a single mom who had Lance when she was still in her teens. Her reckless and desperate pursuit of happiness in marriage is part of her story. Women will empathize with her attempts to make relationships work out for the sake of the child she adored. Loneliness and insecurity make the smartest of us blind to the consequences as we plunge ahead into yet another bad partnership. Throughout, the kid kept her sane and was her anchor. Without him she undoubtedly would have made worse choices.
Once Lance began his youthful pursuit of victory in triathlon events, Linda became a fan who cheered him and a supporter who wrote the checks, no matter how pinched her finances. He started getting sponsorship and that helped. Then he was offered a full college scholarship for his swimming ability. He refused, saying he believed he could make it in the big-time world of sporting events. She went along, with her usual encouragement: stay focused, and I'll be there.
Linda found her personal self-esteem in the world of business. Beginning at the most humble level, shredding paper on weekends to make extra money in her first secretarial job, she moved up quickly to a series of administrative positions in which her vibrant personality came to the fore. She needed money to keep Lance on his bike, but in the meantime she was racing to her own victories as a successful corporate somebody.
Her father was a major influence. Having given up drinking as soon as he had a grandson, he protected Linda and Lance and made their way as smooth as he knew how. It was hard for Linda, however, not to repeat the patterns she'd observed as a little girl. Though she didn't get trapped in physically abusive relationships, she was a doormat --- first for a philanderer and then for another alcoholic. It wasn't until she was older and Lance was independent that she finally found a man who could care for her without his own unwholesome agenda playing out.
So that's where life finds Linda now. Lance, as the world knows, survived Stage 4 (the worst) cancer, including brain lesions. He won the Tour de France a whopping six times and has fathered a son. His mother says, "I still love to stand there and watch him fly."
This is a believable story of the power behind the throne of victory, because Lance Armstrong undoubtedly is made of tough stuff, and it had to have come from somewhere. Linda's story will inspire moms and perhaps help some other lonely mother to let some other kid go the extra mile.
--- Reviewed by Barbara Bamberger Scott
The real victory May 21, 2005
7 out of 8 found this review helpful
I'm a Lance fan. So, when I read this book, it was only out of curiosity for Lance's career. But I found myself reading about an everyday victory, and one not rewarded with multi-million dollar advertising contracts or front-page stories.
Linda could have given away the baby. Linda could have received welfare and lived off the government. She didn't have to work hard to improve her career. She could have stayed in the projects or in bad marriages. Instead, her own determination lifted her and her child's life.
Sometimes I feel down because I'm struggling to save enough to buy a house, and I'm earning far more than she did and I don't have a child to raise. This is a wonderful, motivating book by a woman who never believed it when people told her it couldn't be done.
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