Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours

As any book publicist will tell you, the success of a book depends on many things--but the number one key to success is to have a great and timely book to promote! Bright Triumphs from Dark Hours is one such book.

At a time when living in America resembles a roller-coaster ride on the way down, untold numbers are living Thoreau's "lives of quiet desperation," without the drive or know-how to shift gears. Even though there is talk that our economy is turning around, 2010 is going to be tough for many. Reading about how others have created bright triumphs from dark hours can be helpful and inspiring to those currently in the trenches.

David Heenan, a former David Heenan, a former senior executive with Citigroup and Jardine Matheson, trustee of the Estate of James Campbell, one of the nation's largest landowners, and a visiting professor at Georgetown University, is the author of Bright Triumphs From Dark Hours: Turning Adversity into Success (University of Hawai'I Press; January 2010 ).

Heenan examines the lives of ten extraordinary people who overcame great adversity in their personal or professional lives by applying winning strategies that guided them out of the darkness of near-defeat and into the light of success. He divides his profiles into three categories-crusaders, combatants and comeback kids-and draws not only from education but such genres as sports, the military, climbing and corporate downfalls.

Heenan shares these remarkable stories and explains the 6 life principles they all have in common. Then he explains how others can apply them in their own lives.

Here are the individuals included in the book:

* Joel Klein - New York City school chancellor takes on the monumental task of overhauling the city's embattled public school system

* Shirley Ann Jackson - A scientist who breaks down barriers and becomes the first African American woman to receive a doctorate from MIT and head a major research university

* Bill Snyder - A revered football coach who transforms a perennial loser into a national championship contender with average athletes

* Joanne Boyle - survives a life-threatening cerebral hemorrhage to lead the University of California's women's basketball team to national prominence

* Gary Guller - The loss of an arm could not stop this man from scaling the world's highest peaks

* The Frozen Chosin - Semper Fi. At the Chosin Reservoir on the frozen Korean peninsula, the U.S. Maries escaped the deadly fog of war to fight another day

* Sacagawea - She was the lone Indian, the lone mother, the lone female, and the lone teenager on the perilous Lewis and Clark expedition

* Scott Waddle - a split-second mistake by this navy commander caused the Ehime Maru disaster and was a sad ending to his stellar navy career

* Patti Dunn - Former Hewlett-Packard chair fighting to restore her professional reputation and her personal health while battling cancer

* Steve Case - High-Tech entrepreneur rebounding from the ill-fated AOL Time Warner merger to lead a philanthropic revolution

During these troubled times when many are losing their jobs and having difficulty making ends meet, examining the lives of those who have overcome great adversity and can give each of us hope and courage to come out of the darkness into the light of success.

Bottom line: We're neither hopeless nor helpless. There's a lot we can do to deal with adversity.

David Heenan is available for media interviews. Please contact me if you're interested.

Joanne McCall
National Media Publicist
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