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During his time as a journalist, Phil Berardelli encountered some exceptional people. In this small volume, Phil has compiled his most notable interviews, encompassing distinguished individuals in fields as widely divergent as cinema, public education, microbiology, bioethics and even White House science policy. It represents a small slice of the population of visionaries, people who have contributed to the quality of life, pushed the bounds of achievement and expanded the sphere of human thought. It's a worthwhile collection of interactions -- and one lost opportunity -- with some of the best minds on the planet.

Augustus "Gus" Belmont was your typical commercial airline pilot. Late 40s, divorced with one kid, he lived life as he saw it. The only problem: he was dying. And, Gus was a Rat. Kristin Belmont was Gus's daughter-smart, beautiful, a college senior with the entire world ahead of her. She was not a Rat-though she could see and talk with ghosts. Gus faced his mortality with ticked off stoicism, but he really wanted closure for two 25-year-old mysteries: Why did his one true love disappear before their marriage? Was he guilty of causing another Rat's death? Shoes contains love, murder, mystery, ghosts, the Civil War and Vietnam, and a soupçon of the great military college, Virginia Military Institute with its Brother Rat Cadet Corps.