Story of Two Boys

About the Book

This book centers on the influence of each boy in his historical period having been born the product of the rape of their mothers and the subsequent different life experiences each boy had as a consequence of how their mothers were treated during their early childhood experiences. Jesus was fortunate in having a father who took an interest in him and helped him in every way he could become the man he became. Gottlieb, on the other hand, had a tragic beginning, barely surviving the ordeal of not having a legitimate father and facing the constant harassment of a society that rejected the illegal children from unmarried mothers. The outcome for the life of each boy proved to be what he himself had decided to do with the life that he had!

About the Author

Donald F. Megnin, the son of German immigrants, was born in Syracuse, New York, and grew up on a dairy farm while attending Fayetteville Grammar and High School during the early nineteen thirties and early nineteen forties. He received a scholarship from a Syracuse Industrialist to attend Syracuse University. He not only received an AB degree but also went on to receive his MA and PhD degrees from the Mawell School at Syracuse University. He also attended the Boston University School of Theology and served a Methodist Church in the Syracuse area for part of the time while he was a graduate student at Syracuse. He taught international politics at Slippery Rock University (one of the fourteen state-owned universities of Pennsylvania) until his retirement in 1994. He has written ten books since retiring and continues to take an interest in politics and religion.