“A Pilgrim Muddles Through,” by Robert Brodsky ‘46 is now available on Amazon.com.  Brodsky says, “The ‘Pilgrim’ in the title is John Wayne’s Pilgrim – a wanderer on the earth wondering what it’s all about. There is something in the book for everyone (see “CONTENTS’ below); indeed some of you are mentioned or your stories told.  There’s love and friendship, bathos, religiosity, blasphemy, legalese, nautical hi-jinks, nonsense, writer’s cramp and all that good stuff.”

The book can be ordered by going on line to the book detail page of www.Amazon.com or dialing BookSurge’s ordering Department at toll-free 1-866 308 6235. Give the book title and author name, RF Brodsky. It can also be ordered via www.BookSurge.com; www.Abebooks.com; www.Alibris.com; www.BooksinPrint.com; www.GlobalBooksinPrint.com.

ABOUT THE BOOK AND AUTHOR (excerpted from the back cover)

The stories, rants, letters, and essays in ‘A PILGRIM MUDDLES THROUGH’ represent a  sometimes serious ,   as in   “Credo of a God- Fearing  Atheist, sometimes ridiculous, as in “The Hard Life Of a Poet”, and sometimes  instructive,   as  in  “Brigs I Have Known”,   but  always   interesting glimpse of  modern day trials and tribulations. The breadth of the topics covered is enormous, and all but the serious treatments are given a light touch by an  obvious  iconoclast.   You can discover how at last we can have peace in the Middle East; how to become an unsuccessful author; and how to get booked on the Goodyear Blimp; and, yes, ride a bus from Haifa to Amman on a Saturday. Also enjoyable and edifying are the pictures and cartoons that illustrate many of the stories.    

Dr. Bob Brodsky started a writing career after he retired from industry and academia. He is the author of “On the Cutting Edge” – Tales of a Cold War Engineer at the Dawn of the Nuclear, Guided Missile, Computer and Space ages. Here he describes happenings while he was responsible for the aerodynamic design of all our early atomic bombs; and tells about adventures in the start-up of the space age. His second book, “Songs My Mother Never Sang To Me” illustrates his  ability to recall the  songs   he  sang  and  heard  in   his  profligate youth  in  college,  in the Navy during WW2,  and as a GI Bill benefitee in grad school after the war. He did his best singing at Cornell and remembers all the words by some miracle of preservation of a by-gone, pre-television age. If you don’t like his voice on the CD that accompanies the book, know that he has other talents and once had steady ‘day jobs.’

Before taking up writing after retirement – from TRW Space and Technology in 1988 and as a professor of Astronautics and Space Technology at USC in 1996 – he spent an active career in the aerospace industry and academia. His efforts to date have won him listing in “Who’s Who in America”; - in the World”; - in Science and Engineering”;  and - in American Education”.