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Subtitled The Confessions of "Crazy Cooter" is at best, an understatement. Here we have a fully exposed Cooter, excuse the pun but I can not say it any clearer. Ben Jones tells his story, raised on the smell of sea air in a railroad shack in Portsmouth, VA. He is a hard working lad that loved to play baseball and imagine himself as an all star player. Son of a weekend drinker and a likeable, loveable saint-like mother, Ben steps into the dog crap of life that was issued to him like a cheap pair of GI trousers. Put 'em on, pull 'em up and shut up! No, not Buster Jones, he won't take crap. Like papa before him he takes a shine to the liquor and it takes a shine to him for many, many years. Through his early jobs, education and relationships Ben is on a crusade to drink as often as he can. Naturally this leads him into the bars, beatnik joints and jails. Have I painted a picture of a man with a big thirsty monster demon? Hold that thought for a moment because there is another Ben "Buster" Jones that emerges in this biography. Ben is sensitive to those around him, there is not a lick of hatred in his soul or actions. In fact when you read this book you will find many surprises that may bring a tear to your eyes, you will celebrate the human race once again. We have long been exposed to a likeable TV personality, no doubt many Dukes of Hazzard fans will want to read this book for that alone. Perhaps you were a fellow student, neighbor, politician or constituent of his back in the day, even presently. Mr. Jones found something that perhaps we all need to find, and that is ourselves. With the grace and responding assistance of a greater being, the creator if you will; Ben traded in those GI trousers and took life by the horns and cleaned his act up. This book is loaded with down-home humor from the docks of Virginia to the Capital steps in Washington, DC. You will even find Cooter overseas. Unlike some other books currently on the shelves by self serving political do-nothings and lifeless, shallow Hollywood figurines, we find a human being telling his story, your story and my story. There is nothing crazy about Cooter anymore but there was, yet I won't tell you more here in this review. However, I trust that you will find a man that is no greater than you, no less than you and grateful to have survived his past filled with errors, successes, failures and achievements. Ben Jones puts all of his cards on the table in this book and I congratulate him on a well written, structured and inviting literary contribution.Read full review
I loved the book and you will too if you loved the real Dukes of Hazard.
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