{"product_id":"tall-tales-the-great-talisman-of-height","title":"Tall Tales: The Great Talisman of Height","description":"\"Anatomy is destiny,\" Freud famously wrote. Since caveman times, humans have had practically sacred attitudes towards height. Bill Walker, a near 7-foot tall globetrotter, has produced a highly entertaining book-Tall Tales-on this much underrated subject. Walker ruthlessly submerges his ego to tell a ream of strange, but true, real-life stories. These include flunking the physical to enter the U.S. Army, suffering rejection by horrified members of the opposite sex, and being treated like a wild animal escaped from the zoo in foreign countries. Walker expands the discussion beyond himself to include some intriguing issues: --the infamous Napoleonic short man's complex. And how about its inverse for tall people--the ostrich complex? --What is one to make of the avalanche of studies that show tall people consistently make more money than their shorter counterparts, and win almost every presidential election? --Most of history's mass-murderers have been well to the short side. Is this merely a coincidence? --A closer, more revealing, look at the lives of 7'1 1\/2\" Wilt Chamberlain, 7'2 1\/2\" Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 8'11\" Robert Wadlow, and 6'5\" Abraham Lincoln. --Why short and small may well be the wave of the future.","brand":"Createspace Independent Publishing Platform","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51981682671847,"sku":"9781494222109","price":9.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0449\/4075\/5096\/files\/imageloader_e551beef-013b-42d4-855c-d2e244b5cdec.jpg?v=1776216790","url":"https:\/\/arvidabookco.com\/products\/tall-tales-the-great-talisman-of-height","provider":"Arvida Book Co.","version":"1.0","type":"link"}