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The author of the book “It’s Me, The Early Years: Letters to My Daughter,” Walter Benesch was interviewed by Benji Cole of CBS Radio. This book reminds us that no story is too personal to inspire, and no past too broken to understand. Whether you’re a parent, a thinker, or simply someone navigating your own path through family and memory, this book will speak to your soul.
“It’s Me, The Early Years: Letters to My Daughter” by Walter Benesch is a deeply intimate memoir structured as a collection of letters written by Walter Benesch to his daughter. Through this format, the book revisits and reflects on the formative events, struggles, and revelations that shaped his life — from childhood hardships to adulthood experiences — offering raw honesty, philosophical insight, and emotional depth.
Walter Benesch was born in Lenox Hill Hospital, NYC, and raised in Connecticut. He earned his M.A. in Anthropology from The New School, studying under Ralph Holloway and Michael Harner. His early career included social work in Harlem and the South Bronx, and he was a foster caregiver to Nim Chimpsky, the chimpanzee in Columbia University’s sign language experiment. Later, he earned a MSSS from Boston University and went on to serve as a senior official in the Office of the Secretary of Defense at the Pentagon. There, he led the development of The Y2K Management Plan for the Department of Defense.
He retired after over 30 years of federal service, including work with the Department of Homeland Security. An active Freemason, he held high honors and lectured widely, with many of his talks featured on YouTube via Sapere Audi.
In the book, Benesch recounts a life journey marked by turbulence, resilience, and introspection. He describes growing up in a post-war environment shadowed by trauma, mysticism, racial tensions, and family upheaval — challenges that shaped his identity, beliefs, and worldview.
As the letters unfold, readers accompany him from childhood into adulthood — witnessing not only his personal struggles, but also his intellectual and spiritual evolution. Through vivid, often vulnerable storytelling he shares memories of social work, unique life-changing experiences, and moments of inner growth.
The memoir thus becomes more than a personal history. It is a generational and cultural reflection: a story about identity, family, hardship, recovery, and the shaping of a man’s life through adversity. As he writes to his daughter, he invites readers to witness how each memory, whether painful or hopeful, contributed to his character — and offers the chance for empathy and understanding for anyone trying to make sense of their own past.
“It’s Me, The Early Years: Letters to My Daughter” is more than a memoir — it’s a profound, contemplative journey through a life lived at the edges of hardship and transformation. For readers interested in identity, memory, family legacy, social justice, and personal healing, this book offers a rare mix of emotional honesty and intellectual depth.
If you’re looking for a story that doesn’t just recount events but wrestles with what they mean — for a person, a family, a society — this book is a deeply worthwhile read.
Visit Walter’s website to know more about him and his book at https://www.walterpbenesch.com/.
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