While in no way terrible, this memoir seems more a list of commencement speeches by the author than an enlightening trip through the life of an American icon. You do get glimpses from time to time into the formative years of Alda, but, more often than not, it revolves back into something he delivered to the graduating class of this school in that year. Often witty if sometimes recycled, it’s something to read if you find yourself stranded.

Quite possibly the most intriguing and engrossing read I have ever come across. This book will absorb all of your free time. It will make you paranoid. It will make everything else pale in comparison. Read it. Read it now!