LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Alan Alda: Books
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An incident in Alda's childhood supplies the book's title. Rather than face burying his pet spaniel, the family took the body to a taxidermist. But when they got the dog back, there was such a horrible look on its face that they couldn't stand to display it. The lesson, learned at an early age: you can't hold off change.
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Within a few pages, they're taking walks in Bronx Park, stealing time from Alda's military service at Fort Benning, Georgia, and getting married. The book is 224 pages, so you wait for the other shoe to drop: petty arguments, ugly affairs, divorce.
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Their affair was short-lived (Bara was shot by Charlie Chaplin), and Alda's political career was over. He was able to recover some esteem, and his mea culpa[4] was his first best-selling book.
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