The Og Mandino Story

The Og Mandino story starts with the gift of a son to Silvio and Margaret Mandino on December 12 1923.

The boy was named Augustine after his paternal Italian grandfather Augustine Mandino but the attenuation to Og happened quite early and has stuck with him ever since.

 Og Mandino first became famous for his innovative book The Greatest Salesman in the World published in 1968 although the Og Mandino Story to that point had been one of frustration, degradation and finally a triumph over the odds stacked high against him.

Like many returning servicemen before him Bombardier Augustine “Og” Mandino discovered that his ordinary high school education was not enough to keep the wolf from the door and his 30 B34 bombing missions over Nazi Germany counted for little in a post-war job market. Eventually, after months of unemployment Og Mandino finally landed a job as an insurance salesman and the next chapters in the Og Mandino Story began to unfold.

By this time Og Mandino had married his pre-war girlfriend but the joys of marriage soon faded as they drifted deep into debt and even the arrival of a lovely baby daughter was not enough to sustain the marriage. The next two years were the hardest of Og Mandino’s life as he battled to stay afloat and eventually surrendered and became a motorized hobo moving from town to town picking up what menial work he could. 

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