This autobiography is not a story of a few great men and women, but ordinary men and women who struggled to survive during the Great Depression and World War II. Their stories are our version of the gossip-filled and wonder-working and sometimes doom-laden careers of god and goddesses of Homer. The book traces, through the Genesis of the Adams family and after that, both the immense changes that have occurred in the 20th and the start of the 21st Century but also the difference in our conception of greatness itself.