Armand Miele worked for household grocery money from the age of four; built and re-built his own businesses, despite losing everything during wartime and illness; survived cancer; and has grieved the death of a child. His story spans the time when pushcart vendors still hawked their wares on the streets of the Bronx, through the disillusionment of the Korean War, to modern times of easy credit and over-consumption, where big government is getting our freedom and bringing about a socialist state.Mr. Miele brings his old-school sensibility to the page in his inspiring memoir, "Born Minus" and in selections from his weekly OP-Ed column from the Rockland County Time, "MIele's Musings.'