Reviews

 

Just about everything you never thought of asking about height is in here ... For instance J. Edgar Hoover (5 feet 7) had his employees say that he was "just under 6 feet," and he used specially selected toilets so his feet wouldn't dangle.

Newsweek

 

An astounding revelation on how one's height and that of others plays a subtle but crucial role in your life. This offbeat book is downright fascinating.

Independent Press (Bloomfield, NJ)

 

Keyes's height report is an engrossing and necessary book .

Toronto Globe and Mail

 

Written in a light-hearted vein, the book is sprinkled with amusing anecdotes of people's height-related feelings and frustrations.

Plano Daily Star-Courier

 

Filled with amusing charts, lists, and stories about who is tall, who isn't, and who cares ..

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Connecticut Magazine

The best service the book performs is to spotlight factors so basic in our relationships with others that we have ceased to think about them. Wry, humorous and clearly written ... interesting reading.

Los Angeles Herald-Examiner

 

Ralph Keyes explores the ways in which height presents us with choices and opportunities. The book is filled with valuable statistics, quotations and photographs that provide as much amusement as they do information.

Philadelphia Inquirer

 

Thoroughly entertaining ... You should read this book -- that's the long and short of it.

Charlotte Observer

 

Amusing and entertaining, the book provides glances into the lives of talls and shorts. Keyes even suggests sports and occupations which are best geared to each group.

Charleston Courier (South Carolina)

 

Lively and exhaustively researched.

Chattanooga Free Press

 

Keyes, who goes into the subject of height in depth, has filled his book with intriguing tidbits about such celebrated shorts as Alan Ladd, Joel Grey, and Mae West, and talls like Julia Child, Lowell Weicker, Jr., and Daniel Patrick Moynihan. Most fascinating of all, however, are the well-researched chapters on how height affects sex, success and personal psychology.

Greenville Delat Democrat-Times (Mississippi)

 

A light-hearted but thoughtful discourse on height and how it affects our personal life.

Library Journal

 

Keyes has done a spirited and thorough job in compiling facts and anecdotes about the physical, psychological, economic, and even sexual and political advantages and disadvantages of people of varying heights.

The Critic

 

The book is full of fascinating anecdotes, facts, quotes, photos, cartoons and charts of the actual sizes of well-known people, measured against Mme. Tussaud's famous was-work models. ... The author provides us with considerable food for thought, along with endless material for cocktail-party conversation.

Forum

Mr. Keyes makes it clear that attitudes -- ours and others' -- toward size is what is decisive, and decisively wrong. Discrimination against women, he conjectures, may actually be discrimination on the basis of size. ... The Height of Your Life is an odd, breezy book, quick to record a joke, occasionally rueful, that gathers a kind of sadness as it moves along. I haven't consciously thought about height since I was in high school and realized I would never make 6 feet. ... Now I am made to realize how crucial size is in social dynamics, and how cruel those dynamics are. We learn.

New York Times Book Review (John Leonard)

Thorough and entertaining.

New York Times Magazine (Tom Ferrell)

 

A lively and informative book.

New York Times (N.R. Kleinfield)

 

I once wrote a column about Keyes, who advises women to give shorter guys a chance. In his research, he found many tall women who say lovemaking is better and "more energetic" with shorter guys. One 6-foot-tall woman told Keyes: "Things are equal when you. re lying down. I don't find tall men active enough. They tend to be phlegmatic."

Chicago Sun Times

 

Being tall doesn't just mean seeing better in a crowd: tall people are also more likely to make the team, earn more money and achieve high office, according to Ralph Keyes. book The Height of Your Life.

Montreal Gazette

 

The average American woman is 5 feet 4, but author Ralph Keyes siad "tallness in women is more fashionable than ever."

Kansas City Star