FRED ROGERS - THE GOOD NEIGHBOR: THE LIFE AND WORKS OF (2018 Unabridged Audiobook) Fred Rogers, Maxwell King, LeVar Burton

Fred Rogers (1928-2003) was an enormously influential figure in the history of television and in the lives of tens of millions of children. Every weekday for decades, Mister Rogers stepped through a door in his TV home and sang, “It’s a beautiful day in the neighborhood” while he changed from street clothes into a cardigan and sneakers. As the creator and star of public television’s Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood, Fred Rogers was a champion of compassion, equality, and kindness. He was fiercely devoted to children and to taking their fears, concerns, and questions about the world seriously. Rogers’s work and his messages still resonate with parents and children today—especially in a world where the human values he championed are too often forgotten. Maxwell King delivers the first full-length biography of Fred Rogers, telling the story of this utterly unique and enduring American icon. Drawing on original interviews, oral histories, and archival documents, he traces Rogers's personal, pr