FOP

About the Book

Often you have just to look over your shoulder to find a compelling story that has to be preserved--a story that must not be lost, but treasured as an icon to the magnificence of the life spirit. This is such a story. It is an incredible turn-of-the-twentieth-century biographic tale of the life and adventures of an Italian immigrant bartender’s son who rose from the humblest of beginnings to the unlikely position of national hero. Deputy Inspector of Police John Joseph Foppiano of the Memphis, Tennessee Police Department, “Fop”, was my grandfather. His story is an inspiration. I couldn’t pass it up!

About the Author

Dr. William P. King, retired now after forty-five years of ear, nose and throat surgical and allergy practice, lives in Corpus Christi, Texas. He also had a distinguished career as an avid educator, both as an international lecturer and as the author of numerous textbook chapters and medical journal articles. He has been an active participant in organized medicine, serving in the past as a chairman of the Board of Governors of the American Academy of Otolaryngology/Head and Neck Surgery, and as president of both the Pan-American Allergy Society and the American Academy of Otolaryngic Allergy. From the latter he was presented the President’s Award and the Lifetime Achievement Award. His most current book, Follow the Green Line, is a tongue-in-cheek fiction-based-on-fact novelette chronicling a one-year rotating internship at a large Southern charity hospital in 1955. It’s a ball!