"Going Up": A Working Life
by Alfred Thomas Wilcox
$12.95 paperback, 136 pages
Published: May 2003
ISBN 1-880849-63-1

To order by phone, call 866-942-8389

Al Wilcox went to work full-time at age sixteen after a childhood in which he and his two brothers had mostly raised themselves. Much of Wilcox's story unfolds through a progression of jobs--from the grocery store where he met his wife-to-be, to his U.S. Navy training in World War II, to a fifty-year career in the elevator business.

Wilcox's story unfolds not just as one man's path, but as a quintessentially American story--rising from rough and unpromising beginnings to an engrossing professional career and family life. Whether in his fascination with elevator engineering, his effort to conquer his fear of public speaking, and even his love of flying, Wilcox's story is one of "going up."