Let's be honest. No other parenting books even try to show you how to make your son or daughter a great American. We do. Thirty (30) great men and women from across many professions, genders, politics, religions, and walks of life-the products of extraordinary parenting and mentoring. This book offers the exact techniques, words, phrases, mantras -to propel your offspring to incredible success - toward rich, vivid lives. They worked for those parents and mentors. They can and will work for you too. Mantras are the 21st Century way to lock your ideals, standards, ethics, and principles into formative minds. By definition they demand repetition. The phrasing may stay the same or almost the same. The stories, the elaboration, the background, the colors may bob and weave. But the cores of the mantras stay fixed. Stars to remember and guide one through life. MANTRAS. The exact words used to motivate and guide those great future Americans. Distilled from over 500 biographies. These techniques, these words and phrases, WORK This book uniquely brings you the best parenting and mentoring advice. Straight up. No bull. The EXACT, SPECIFIC techniques and words the parents or mentors used to motivate their sons and daughters. To inspire them. Inspire them not just to succeed, but to rise above all others. We present some of the smartest, most creative, most determined, most astute parents and mentors that ever lived. They threw their whole life into educating their children. Not in classroom ABC's and 3 R's. They educated their children in HOW TO LIVE LIFE. The parents and mentors of: Volume I: Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Warren Buffett, Julia Child, Elizabeth Edwards, Edward Kennedy, Sandra Day O'Connor, Ronald Reagan, Yvonne Thornton, Alice Walker, and Denzel Washington. Volume II: Nancy Brinker, Hillary Clinton, Dwight Eisenhower, George Foreman, Andrew Grove, Quincy Jones, Wilma Mankiller, Paul Newman, George Soros, and Naomi Wolf Volume III: Jane Pauley, Michael Bloomberg, Rachel Carson, Walt Disney, Ted Geisel (Dr. Seuss), Billy Graham, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, Barack Obama, and Paul Volcker