The Tree Nobody Wanted
“I cried when I read your wonderful book.”
Anita Shreve, best-selling author
“It’s a charming book, even biblical, and nostalgic.”
William Gibson, playwright (The Miracle Worker, Golda, Two for the Seesaw)
“What a stunningly beautiful story. Tom McCann is a supremely talented writer, planting words and images that have stayed rooted in my soul. Everything he described, I could see. The Tree Nobody Wanted will remain one of my favorite books of all time.”
Mike Leonard, NBC Today show
“I loved Tree. When I started reading it, I was not prepared to find it so engrossing and moving. McCann has the storyteller’s gift.”
Jacques Cartier
“A wonderful story for all ages. One that constantly surprises and delights. Tom McCann is an ingenious storyteller.”
John Farrell, author (The Day without Yesterday)
“I used to try to read A Christmas Carol every Christmas Eve, and now I have two options for all of the Christmas Eves to come. With The Tree Nobody Wanted: A Christmas Story, Tom McCann has written a wonderful, touching story that truly runs the gamut of emotions. This is really a heartachingly beautiful story. There aren’t many books that can make you cry and smile at the same time, but Tree is definitely one of them.”
Daniel Jolley, amazon.com top 50 reviewer
Earth Angel
“It’s a beautiful yarn … wholesome, inspiring and deeply moving. A pleasure to read.”
Dr. John Silber, President Emeritus, Boston University
“As I read this tale of the gallant little fighter plane that couldn’t fly, I really had a tear in my eye at the ending of this lovely feel good work.”
Robin Moore, author, The French Connection and The Green Berets
“Tom McCann’s fable soars on wings of wonder to heights of joy and excitement—a corker of a read for every age and gender.”
James W. Ryan, coauthor, Who Killed the Red Baron?
“It’s great—the best aviation fable of our time.”
General John Haack, retired, US Air Force
An American Company
“…a remarkable tale…compelling…a very personal, very relevant, occasional even poignant tale of the humanness of a seemingly inhuman corporate world.”
The New York Times
“…hard and cool.”
Kirkus Reviews
“McCann is an excellent storyteller and this corporate history is probably as readable as any written.”
Business Week
“It’s McCann’s skill that he can make the machinations that ensued intelligible even to those of us who don’t know a bid from a debenture…it is some story.”
The Boston Globe
“An American Company: The Tragedy of United Fruit is a business book in a sense, but it is also a mystery, a political work, an analysis of corporate dirty tricks….McCann, spent 20 years with the United Fruit Co., and when he resigned he was vice president in charge of public relations. And knew plenty.”
San Francisco Sunday Examiner & Chronicle
“…a haunting, half-sickening melody of greed, compelling drive, conceit and corrupted values…no fiction can speak with the heavy drama and authority of one who was ‘there’…”
The Baltimore Sun
“McCann averages at least one outrage per page. What a company! What a story—corporate intrigue, corruption of governments, plotting with the CIA to foment revolutions, exploiting workers, manipulating the politicians, and the public and the press! It is what the movies would call ‘incredible — but true!’ fascinating…”
The Philadelphia Sunday Bulletin
“…a sensitive, though sometimes critical, account of the company…non-Bostonians may feel regrets for what happened to this grand old company.”
Harvard Business Review
“…the inside story…a sad, sorry and frill account.”
Parade
“…the manner of telling is lively, intimate and candid…”
Foreign Affairs