Author Samuel F. Pryor III vividly portrays the father who was a master political strategist, a prime mover in the creation of the airline industry and a leading conservationist.

President George H.W. Bush: I have read every word of Make It Happen and got an enormous kick out of it.

Karl C. Rove: If anything, Make it Happen underplays Sam Pryor's role in the 1940 Republican Convention and nomination of Wendell Willkie. Pryor was the pivot on what so much turned in those quick and important months. 

Charlie Trippe (son of Juan Trippe, chairman of Pan American Airways): Sam Pryor . . . played an indispensable role in the development of Pan Am in its glory years.