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FORGED IN A COUNTRY CRUCIBLE by Joseph C. White is entertaining, interesting, informative and inspiring. Perhaps knowing him for several years and having read his next book, HILLBILLY IN THE REAL ESTATE JUNGLE, helped. (FORGED IN A COUNTRY CRUCIBLE) is a story of growing up on a Tennessee farm, performing adult labor as a teenager, overcoming the hardships of living and moving on to successful careers in the Air Force, federal civil service, business and a nationwide non-profit organization.

There is no indication that Joe was educated or trained to be a professional writer, but he gets the ideas and feelings out to the reader. When he writes of waking up in an unheated room in a house with no indoor plumbing and going across the road into the woods to relieve himself one can almost feel the sting of the freezing cold. When he writes of walking six miles to school it is easy to visualize him as an Air Force bomber.
- W. T. Toney, jr.

Bill Toney has a Master’s degree and completed all requirements except the dissertation for a Ph.D. in criminal justice with a concentration in police administration. He was on the criminal justice faculty of Stephen F. Austin State University at Nacogdoches, Texas, for eleven years including two years as a director of the program. He has held positions of chief of a Border Patrol sector, the Navy rank of commander as an intelligence specialist, and others.

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