It chronicles male friendship at its finest and most powerful. I’m Proud of You reveals Fred Rogers as a person who deserves a place among history’s greatest people. He was the transcendent being who guided Madigan through periods of life-threatening depression and the tragic death of a sibling and helped him heal his difficult relationship with his father. He was a person of unique human greatness who embodied love, compassion and wisdom his every waking moment. In that time, Madigan found Rogers to be much more than the calm and compassionate personality of television. From their first meeting in 1995, at Rogers’ invitation, the two became unlikely friends, a deep and abiding relationship that lasted until Rogers’ death in 2003. But in Fred Rogers, Texas journalist Tim Madigan found more than a fascinating subject. It began as another newspaper assignment, a celebrity profile of the children’s television icon.
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