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<p> Richard Manning has written a beautiful literary memoir with the clear-eyed assessment of a journalist. He doesn't spare himself or his family as he examines the American obsession with work, faith, and family, and the way we love and resent them with equal ardor. --Carolyn Briggs, author of Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost <p> Richard Manning's work has always been something special, distinguished by its intense passion and its penetrating insights. Whenever we encounter a writer with those qualities, we have to ask what gave birth to them. It Runs in the Family answers that question. This is a remarkable book, not only an authentically American memoir but a diagnosis of our larger national condition. --George Black, author of Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone <p> As a newsman, Dick Manning set a standard in the West for brave, hard-hitting reporting about the big environmental issues that pit money against the land; and he always spoke for the land, for which the West should be thankful. Now he has produced a sometimes charming, often irascible memoir of family, religion, and journalism that is not for fans of gentle nostalgia. If you like the real stuff, though, with the muscle showing and the details enumerated in the way a fine journalist does it, give It Runs in the Family a try. --John N. Maclean, author of The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 <p> Richard Manning is the most significant social critic in the northern Rockies and short-grass plains. It Runs in the Family tells the blue-collar story of his family, and how he progressed from there to here. It's fearless and incisive while cutting through a lot of nonsense. We're fortunate to have Dick Manning as he continues his demands for fairness while casting light on our future. --William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky <br> In the first decade of this century, when America's so-called prayer president was leading us into-

<p> Richard Manning has written a beautiful literary memoir with the clear-eyed assessment of a journalist. He doesn't spare himself or his family as he examines the American obsession with work, faith, and family, and the way we love and resent them with equal ardor. --Carolyn Briggs, author of Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost <p> Richard Manning's work has always been something special, distinguished by its intense passion and its penetrating insights. Whenever we encounter a writer with those qualities, we have to ask what gave birth to them. It Runs in the Family answers that question. This is a remarkable book, not only an authentically American memoir but a diagnosis of our larger national condition. --George Black, author of Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone <p> As a newsman, Dick Manning set a standard in the West for brave, hard-hitting reporting about the big environmental issues that pit money against the land; and he always spoke for the land, for which the West should be thankful. Now he has produced a sometimes charming, often irascible memoir of family, religion, and journalism that is not for fans of gentle nostalgia. If you like the real stuff, though, with the muscle showing and the details enumerated in the way a fine journalist does it, give It Runs in the Family a try. --John N. Maclean, author of The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 <p> Richard Manning is the most significant social critic in the northern Rockies and short-grass plains. It Runs in the Family tells the blue-collar story of his family, and how he progressed from there to here. It's fearless and incisive while cutting through a lot of nonsense. We're fortunate to have Dick Manning as he continues his demands for fairness while casting light on our future. --William Kittredge, author of Hole in the Sky <br> In the first decade of this century, when America's so-called prayer president was leading us intot

<p> Richard Manning has written a beautiful literary memoir with the clear-eyed assessment of a journalist. He doesn't spare himself or his family as he examines the American obsession with work, faith, and family, and the way we love and resent them with equal ardor. --Carolyn Briggs, author of Higher Ground: A Memoir of Salvation Found and Lost <br> Richard Manning is the West's greatest journalist. Read this book, and then everything else he has written, and everything he ever will write. --Rick Bass, author of Colter, Why I Came West, and The Wild Marsh <br> Richard Manning's work has always been something special, distinguished by its intense passion and its penetrating insights. Whenever we encounter a writer with those qualities, we have to ask what gave birth to them. It Runs in the Family answers that question. This is a remarkable book, not only an authentically American memoir but a diagnosis of our larger national condition. --George Black, author of Empire of Shadows: The Epic Story of Yellowstone <br> As a newsman, Dick Manning set a standard in the West for brave, hard-hitting reporting about the big environmental issues that pit money against the land; and he always spoke for the land, for which the West should be thankful. Now he has produced a sometimes charming, often irascible memoir of family, religion, and journalism that is not for fans of gentle nostalgia. If you like the real stuff, though, with the muscle showing and the details enumerated in the way a fine journalist does it, give It Runs in the Family a try. --John N. Maclean, author of The Esperanza Fire: Arson, Murder and the Agony of Engine 57 <br> Richard Manning is the most significant social critic in the northern Rockies and short-grass plains. It Runs in the Family tells the blue-collar story of his family, and how he progressed from there to here. It's fearless and incisive while cutting through a lot of nonsense. We're fortunate to have Dick Man

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RICHARD MANNING is an award-winning author and journalist. He has written seven books, including Rewilding the West: Restoration in a Prairie Landscape, Against the Grain: How Agriculture Has Hijacked Civilization, Food's Frontier: The Next Green Revolution, and Grassland: The History, Biology, Politics, and Promise of the American Prairie. He lives in Helena, Montana.

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