On a cold winter morning in 1935, a nine-year-old boy huddled next to his uncle on a horse-driven wagon heading for the train station in Bitola, Macedonia. His destination was America and he'd be making the train and ocean liner trip all by himself. His father had sent for him, finally. His mother was dead. The boy's name was Pandel Savic. His autobiography was released in Octdober 2016 by Orange Frazer Press. The book tells a remarkable story about a great man as the memoirs sweep across much of the twentieth century and into this one. He fought for his adopted country as a Marine in the horrific battles of the South Pacific in World War II. He quarterbacked Ohio State to its first Rose Bowl victory in 1950. He became one of Jack Nicklaus' very best friends, learning the game of golf and growing into a champion in his own right. He took perhaps more golf lessons than any man who ever lived, many from the greatest players and teachers the game has ever known. With his own personal brand of hard work and ethics, Savic fought tirelessly against long odds and tragedy to build a small industrial supply business into the largest of its kind in the nation as he pursued the American Dream. As Chairman of the Memorial Tournament in Dublin, Ohio from its inception, Savic helped the event become one of the finest on the PGA Tour. Along the way, he developed close friendships with presidents of the United States, movie stars, sports figures, and an amazing gallery of unforgettable characters. These are his stories, drawn from his unique and colorful memory. They are an important reflection of the country he loves and our universal hope for a better life. Donald Holmes Lewis is the author of A Wonderful Run at Life. The author of Pandel Savic's autobiography? How odd you say. It happened this way. Don sat down with Savic when he first was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. He listened to his stories for months, taking notes, videotaping. With only anecdotes to work with, Don used his own imagination and the increasingly threadbare recollections of the man, and began writing, toiling to capture Savic's unique voice. It's a unusual form of memoir, part fiction, part non-fiction, with the literary license aplenty. In a way, Savic and Lewis are co-authors, partners, friends in a way impossible to describe.