Book Review: Grateful American

GRATEFUL AMERICAN

A JOURNEY FROM SELF TO SERVICE

BY GARY SINISE

HARPER COLLINS

THOMAS NELSON

BIOGRAPHIES & MEMOIRS

PUB DATE 12 FEB 2019

I am reviewing a copy of Grateful American through Thomas Nelson and Netgalley:

I must say I was excited for the opportunity to review this book and I wasn’t disappointed. I’ve been a long time fan of Gary Sinise not only for his career as a actor and a musician though I am definitely a fan of Forest Gump, as well as CSI: NY but it’s more because of what he has done for our Veterans.

As a kid in Suburban Chicago Gary Sinise was more interested in sports and rock and roll then he was in reading and academics. After he impulsively auditioned for a school production of West Side Story it seemed he had found his calling.

I’m just a matter of a few years Gary and a few friends created what was to become one of the most and exciting and new theatre companies in America. From the start of the company in a church basement in Suburban Chicago and its eventual move into the city, the Steppenwolf company went on to help launch not only Gary Sinise’s career but the careers of John Malkovich, Joan Allen, Gary Cole, Laurie Metcalf and others: Television and film…