The Council of Dads
– Bruce Feiler

From TED.com

Diagnosed with cancer, Bruce Feiler worried first about his young family. So — as he shares in this funny, rambling and ultimately thoughtful talk — he asked his closest friends to become a “council of dads,” bringing their own lifetimes of wisdom to advise his twin daughters as they grow.

Bruce Feiler is the author of “The Secrets of Happy Families,” and the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries “Walking the Bible.”

Why you should listen

Bruce Feiler is the author of nine books, including Walking the Bible, Abraham, andAmerica’s Prophet. He is also the writer/presenter of the PBS miniseries Walking the Bible. His book The Council of Dads tells the uplifting story of how friendship and community can help one survive life’s greatest challenges. Most recently Feiler published The Secrets of Happy Families, in which he calls for a new approach to family dynamics, inspired by cutting-edge techniques gathered from experts in the disciplines of science, business, sports and the military.

Feiler’s early books involve immersing himself in different cultures and bringing other worlds vividly to life. These include Learning to Bow, an account of the year he spent teaching in rural Japan; Looking for Class, about life inside Oxford and Cambridge; andUnder the Big Top, which depicts the year he spent performing as a clown in the Clyde Beatty-Cole Bros. Circus.   Walking the Bible describes his perilous, 10,000-mile journey retracing the Five Books of Moses through the desert. The book was hailed as an “instant classic” by theWashington Post and “thoughtful, informed, and perceptive” by the New York Times.

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TITLE: Bruce Feiler: The council of dads
TEDMED 2010 · 20:33 minutes · Filmed Oct 2010

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