Research Catalog
Thank you for my service
- Title
- Thank you for my service / Mat Best with Ross Patterson & Nils Parker.
- Author
- Best, Mat
- Publication
- New York : Bantam Books, [2019]
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Use in library | JFE 19-10021 | Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315 |
Details
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- Description
- 210 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color); 25 cm
- Summary
- "Mat Best may be the only man alive known for both crazy-intense military ops and crazy-funny YouTube videos. In Freedom On!, he uses the gallows humor and ribald sensibility that earned him over a million Facebook followers to tell his personal story of military service and the bumpy transition to civilian life and successful entrepreneurship. Beginning as a teenager in a military family dealing with 9/11, continuing through the intensity of four years as an Army Ranger and five years as a private military contractor, and concluding with one of the most meaningful moments in Best's life -- screening a movie he wrote, produced, and starred in for soldiers deployed overseas -- Best gives readers a fuller sense of the person they might only know from his major online and video persona. With equal amounts of heart and balls, this is the unapologetic, laugh-your-ass-off military book that vets and civilians alike have been waiting for"--
- Alternative Title
- Freedom on!
- Subjects
- United States
- Actors
- Veterans
- Businesspeople
- Internet personalities
- Personal narratives
- Iraq War (2003-2011)
- Actors > United States > Biography
- Personal narratives > American
- 2003-2011
- Humor
- United States > Army > Ranger Regiment, 75th > Battalion, 2nd > Biography
- HUMOR / Adult
- Veterans > United States > Biography
- Best, Mat
- Biographies
- Afghan War, 2001- > Personal narratives, American
- Autobiographies
- Afghan War (2001- )
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs
- Iraq
- Iraq War, 2003-2011 > Personal narratives, American
- BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Military
- Veteran reintegration > Biography
- Businesspeople > United States > Biography
- Internet personalities > United States > Biography
- Genre/Form
- Biographies.
- Personal narratives – American.
- Autobiographies.
- Humor.
- Personal narratives.
- Contents
- Does anyone need a hand? -- From Green Day to green thumb -- You're in the Army, now?! -- Baby, it's cold outside, so please piss on me -- A soldier comes home -- Brehm and Barraza -- Tab on the shoulder, tats on the sleeve -- Head and shoulders above the rest -- I am the LAW -- Iraqi rave party -- Balad. James Balad. -- Snowflakes in Los Angeles? -- Party patrol -- When life gives you an ox, make oxen -- The hundred-foot war -- Hey, aren't you that dude? -- Shirts & shots & shows & service -- By veterans, for veterans.
- Call Number
- JFE 19-10021
- ISBN
- 9781524796495
- 1524796492
- LCCN
- 2019016176
- 40029388266
- OCLC
- 1099541302
- Author
- Best, Mat, author.
- Title
- Thank you for my service / Mat Best with Ross Patterson & Nils Parker.
- Publisher
- New York : Bantam Books, [2019]
- Edition
- First edition.
- Type of Content
- textstill image
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Chronological Term
- 2003-2011
- Added Author
- Patterson, Ross, 1977- author.Parker, Nils, author.
- Note
- Prepublication title: Freedom on!
- Other Form:
- Online version: Best, Mat. Thank you for my service. First edition. New York : Bantam Books, [2019] 9781524796501 (DLC) 2019020166
- Other Standard Identifier
- 40029388266
- Research Call Number
- JFE 19-10021