Different Drums: How a Father and Son Bridged Generations with Love and Understanding, 1975

Published by Saturday Review Press (New York), 1975.

"In Different Drums, two sensitive men, the eminent clergyman, Charles Merrill Smith, and his writer son, Terrence Lore Smith, account for the serious rift that grew between them despite a family atmosphere of generous give and take. Each in turn tells from his own point of view how the generation gap affected their relationship, how they came to understand and heal their differences, and what they learned--and what other families may learn as well--from the experience"