May 2005

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE 

Treasured Flashbacks Captured for Posterity in Print

FORT LAUDERDALE, MAY 2005:  Robert Bongardt had decided to put his memories down on paper for his children, grandchildren, and friends.  The result, Flashbacks of Youth, began with Bongardt’s brilliant capture of his growing up days in Baltimore in the thirties and forties and evolved into a memoir that is exquisitely personal and, yet quite elegantly contains the essence of America’s good old days.  Flashbacks of Youth has an appeal that goes beyond a personal legacy to Bongardt’s inner circle.  It is a chronicle of American life in a simpler time and place as well as an individual’s history. 

That the author chose to share his life story with his family as a gift for present and future generations is a generous legacy in itself.  That Bongardt opens the door to allow the public inside his inner pages encompasses a munificent gesture that eclipses any vanity and pretension so often connected with a personal memoir of an ordinary Everyman.  Flashbacks of Youth will entertain, enlighten, and may even inspire some readers to get out their pencils and write down their own flashbacks of youth! 

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