Jack Warner A Great Politician:

Ultimately, Zero to Hero is a tale to be told to the disadvantaged underclass of this world. It is a fitting testament to Warner who was trained and certified professionally in the humanities and who honed his skills for many years in the classroom. The book is also a study of the transfer of skills, knowledge and abilities from the vocation of teaching to the craft of football administration and also the adversarial cut and thrust of politics. Warner has debunked the critics’ snide remark that those who can’t, teach by his ascendancy to one of the highest offices in the world.The book is dedicated to the memory of his mother Stella, the mother who fathered me.I find it difficult however to understand the rationale for the title of Zero to Hero for Austin Jack Warner never waszero. While he was financially poor, he was privileged to have inherited positive genes from his mother. Love and care were lavished on him. His special gifts were rewarded very early in his life. Stella’s biological transmission accounts for his academic brilliance when he was given the educational opportunity. These stories are important accounts that substantiate the perspicacity of the women of Stella’s era who made their husband, however he was, their home and their offspring the centre of their world. This was their single-minded commitment. Stella exhibited shrewd business practices as the many vignettes of her active life demonstrate. His flawed father Wilton, despite the negativity and underachievement that surrounded him came from strong Tobago stock which desires success, a trait which, though it may have skipped Wilton, found full expression in Jack whose quest and journey would be more fruitful than his erstwhile father. Zero to Hero is also a period piece of a time when the Roman Catholic Church and its clergy had real, substantial influence in the life and fortunes of its congregation. It was also the time that details the parameters of achievement that were clearly set for the newly independent Trinidad and Tobago with its divergent politics. The elaborate ritual of courtship, the manners and mores of an emerging society give the younger reader a glimpse into a country yet to understand its psyche.