Bestselling author Bruce Feiler was a young father when he was diagnosed with cancer. He instantly worried what his daughters' lives would be like without him. "Would they wonder who I was? Would they wonder what I thought? Would they yearn for my approval, my love, my voice?" Three days later he came up with a stirring idea of how he might give them that voice. He would reach out to six men from all the passages in his life, and ask them to be present in the passages in his daughters' lives. And he would call this group "The Council of Dads." "I believe my daughters will have plenty of opportunities in their lives," he wrote to these men. "They'll have loving families. They'll have each other. But they may not have me. They may not have their dad. Will you help be their dad?" The Council of Dads is the inspiring story of what happened next. Feiler introduces the men in his Council and captures the life lesson he wants each to convey to his daughters--how to see, how to travel, how to question, how to dream. He mixes these with an intimate, highly personal chronicle of his experience battling cancer while raising young children, along with vivid portraits of his father, his two grandfathers, and various father figures in his life that explore the changing role of fathers in America. This is the work of a master storyteller confronting the most difficult experience of his life and emerging with wisdom and hope. The Council of Dads is a touching, funny, and ultimately deeply moving book on how to live life, how the human spirit can respond to adversity, and how to deepen and cherish the friendships that enrich our lives.

[美] 布鲁斯•费勒（Bruce Feiler）

★美国颇具影响力的作家。他极具冒险精神，曾跋涉一万多公里游历《圣经》记载的遗迹，并据此创作出畅销一时的《圣地踪迹》（Walking the Bible）一书，该书还被美国公共电视台拍摄成系列片，家喻户晓。

★费勒自幼接受正统的犹太教育，获得耶鲁大学学士学位和剑桥大学国际关系学硕士学位，其研究触角涉及宗教、日本文化、马戏团、乡村音乐等多个领域。他酷爱旅游，足迹遍布五大洲60余国。

★2008年5月，费勒被诊断为罕见的癌症——骨肉瘤。可能离开妻子和女儿的痛苦，让他萌生组建“爸爸军团”的念头。军团由费勒最欣赏与信赖的6位朋友组成，把费勒也许不能教给女儿们的人生课业传授给她们。如果“那一天”真的来临，这几位“爸爸”将承担起重任。“爸爸军团”的故事感动全球，费勒因此被美国父教协会（National Fatherhood Initiative）评为“年度好爸爸”。