Beyond Expectations: Memoirs and Stories of a Timmins Boy

When Rene Pappone left the Northern Ontario mining community of Timmins in 1955 for a job in radio, he had no idea where life's journey would take him. Through a series of events, which he describes with fascinating details, his career took him beyond his wildest expectations. Pappone's enthralling compilation includes his years as the son of an enemy alien during the Second World War, his action-packed days as a political journalist and his role as a federal government communications officer dealing with high profile news events. Among the prominent players along the way were Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Robert Stanfield, Joe Clark, Ernest Manning, Queen Elizabeth, and Alexei Kogygin. But the author best remembers the people who shaped his destiny - his parents, his teachers, his friends, his employers.