David Keyes

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

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, …

Lively and exhaustively researched.

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.

Thoroughly entertaining … You should read this book — that’s the long and short of it.

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.