The Pulitzer-prize winning author of 1996’s Angela’s Ashes and 1999’s follow-up, ‘Tis, brings you the final installment in the memoir trilogy of Frank McCourt’s heartbreaking but ultimately triumphant life. This time, McCourt focuses on his 30-odd years of teaching in New York City’s public high schools, detailing the often infuriating way education administrators, bureaucrats, and officials dealt with students, teachers, and curriculum when all McCourted wanted to do was simply teach. “I was uncomfortable with the bureaucrats, the higher-ups, who had escaped classrooms only to turn and bother the occupants of those classrooms, teachers and students. I never wanted to fill out their forms, follow their guidelines, administer their examinations, tolerate their snooping, adjust myself to their programs and courses of study,” McCourt writes, and eventually, he found ingenius ways to circumvent the system to enrich his students lives and get them to think creatively, while also learning from them as well. McCourt gives a remarkable insight into the nature of teaching that should be required reading for every teacher in America, and more than a few public officials as well.