How I Got This Way - by Patrick F McManus (Paperback)

About the Book

Pat McManus, the bestselling author of such hilarious books as A Fine and Pleasant Misery and Never Sniff a Gift Fish, now offers readers solid thoughts on the qualities that define leadership, beginning with the need to be tall, and much more, in this outrageous collection of short pieces that reveals his tortuous trip along the writer's path.

Book Synopsis

Hilarious and heartwarming stories of outdoor mishaps and misadventures from the beloved five-time New York Times bestselling humorist, Patrick F. McManus, "a writer who makes people laugh out loud, hard." (The New York Times)

In these twenty-seven outrageous tales of camping, hunting, birding, berry-picking, and surviving county fairs, the hysterical Patrick F. McManus offers insights on the qualities that define leadership (beginning with the need to be tall) and much more--lessons gleaned from his own tortuous path as an outdoorsman.

Including such classic stories as "My Hike with, ahem, the President" and "Excuse Me While I Get Out of the Way."

Review Quotes

Praise for Patrick F. McManus

"Everybody should read Patrick McManus."
--The New York Times Books Review

"Patrick McManus is a treasure."
--The Atlantic

"Hilarious."
--Los Angeles Times

"A style that brings to mind Mark Twain, Art Buchwald, and Garrison Keillor."
--People

"Funniest guy in a flannel shirt"
--Kirkus Reviews

"Gentle, ironic, self-deprecatory wit from the popular western humorist. There's some of Bill Nye here and more still of Mark Twain."
--Booklist

"Laugh-out-loud funny."
--School Library Journal

"Today's most gifted outdoor humorist."
--Detroit Free Press

"The funniest writer around today--indoors or outdoors."
--The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

About the Author

Patrick F. McManus (1933-2018) is the author of novels, plays, and more than a dozen collections of his humor columns from Outdoor Life and other magazines. He has sold roughly six million copies of such bestselling books as They Shoot Canoes, Don't They?; The Night the Bear Ate Goombaw; and A Fine and Pleasant Misery.