What Zizi Gave Honeyboy

by Celente, Gerald

• ISBN13: 9780066212661
• ISBN10: 0066212669
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2002-03-07
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publications

Summary

One recent spring Gerald Celente went to visit his cuddly eighty-three-year-old Italian aunt, Zizi, in Yonkers, New York. He was expecting the same delectable combination of food, friendship, and motherly love that Zizi had served up through the years at her little kitchen table. But Celente got more than he expected. Over chicken cutlets and games of Scrabble, the straight-talking Zizi raised some tough questions for her nephew, "Honeyboy," to consider. Targeting some of the essential issues of our time-work, family, health care, politics, war, and aging in America -- Zizi made Celente think about whether America was delivering on its promises. Have we lost too many timeless old-world values in the march of progress? Are we really better off today than we were yesterday? And what does the future hold for each one of us, our families, and our community as a whole? Celente thought he had it all figured out. As the founder of the Trends Research Institute, he is well respected for his track record of picking business, consumer, political, and economic trends before they come to pass. It is his job to see the future and understand how the issues and events of today will determine the trends of tomorrow. But it took Zizi to help him see the unsettling truths about what has happened to America over the last several decades. They would talk about the world they once knew -- a world filled with family, dinners together, and Sundays at church. Zizi would remember "back then" with fondness, and Celente would recall his years growing up with his parents and six siblings. As they reflect on their pasts, their lives, and where we've arrived as a nation, Celente and Zizi realize that something has been lost. There is an emptiness that most of us feel. But what is the cause of it? And what can we do to fix it? In What Zizi Gave Honeyboy, Gerald Celente provides a provocative look at our lives today and a glimpse of the future we deserve in Zizi's warmth, her recipes, and her wisdom.

Author Biography

Gerald Celente founded the Trends Research Institute in Rhinebeck, New York, in 1980. He is the publisher of The Trends Journal

Table of Contents

A Note from the Author	p. ix
Don't Save All Your Money for a Rainy Day	p. 1
God Can Lift the Hurt You're Feeling	p. 15
Golden Years Can Bring Tears	p. 23
How About Voting for the Better of Two Goods?	p. 35
Humanity Hanging from a Cross of Iron	p. 45
Just Wait Until Your Father Gets Home	p. 55
Something Is Lost and Cannot Be Found	p. 65
Make Money Your God and It Will Plague You Like the Devil	p. 79
Work to Live, Don't Live to Work	p. 89
A Useless Life Is an Early Death	p. 109
Would You Rather I Smoke Pot?	p. 121
What Do They Think--I Was Born Yesterday?	p. 129
They Must Think We're All Morons	p. 145
The Duck-and-Cover Generation	p. 157
Was Columbus in the Mafia?	p. 169
Believing in the Make-Believe Ballroom	p. 177
When the Angel Passes and Says Amen	p. 193
It's Your Move	p. 207
Acknowledgments	p. 211
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