Florence Littauer: A Brief Summary

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Author biography Mrs. Littauer was born on April 27, 1928 in Haverhill, Massachusetts. Littauer is an 87 year old, Christian self- help author and a public speaker. Littauer taught college English, directed musical comedies, done fashion commentating for Macy’s, served on the founding staff of Connecticut’s Long Wharf Theater, and won the coveted "Best Female Speaker in New England Colleges" award. She married her late husband Fred and they had four children, two daughter’s , and two boys. Both sons died from a mysterious brain disorder, the first son “Freddie” died from issues related to seizures he suffered during his infancy. After losing their first son, out of grief they decided to conceive again, which led to their second son Larry who suffered from the same brain …show more content…

I imagine she wrote the book to inform others on how we are all different types of personalities, and to show people how we can understand ourselves by understanding others. The book is infused with humor and the descriptions of each personality (there are four) are short and to the point, Broken down in the book by sections of the personalities and descriptions of each. No unnecessarily long and tedious descriptions, and the author uses scenarios of her and her husband’s experiences (before and after they knew about the different personality types), Florence Littauer shows how to determine what type of temperament you fall into: Popular Sanguine tends to describe the person to boisterous, bubbly, chatty, openly emotional, social extroverts, Powerful Choleric describes the person as being a leader and or a director. They seek to be in control of situations, to be on top, to be the best., Perfect Melancholy describes the person as being emotionally sensitive, perfectionistic introverts, or Peaceful Phlegmatic describes the person as being meek, submissive introverts who live to please others.. Understanding that, we are then shown the strengths and weaknesses that

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