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Author: Hamilton Jordan Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820348899 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 261
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This memoir by one of our great political strategists chronicles Hamilton Jordan's childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and intellectual development as he discovers the complicated legacies of racism, religious intolerance, andsouthern politics, and affords his readers an intimate view of the state's wheelersand dealers.
Author: Hamilton Jordan Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820348899 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 261
Book Description
This memoir by one of our great political strategists chronicles Hamilton Jordan's childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and intellectual development as he discovers the complicated legacies of racism, religious intolerance, andsouthern politics, and affords his readers an intimate view of the state's wheelersand dealers.
Author: Hamilton Jordan Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 0820348902 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 260
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“The story of a young man waking to the fact that his family is on the wrong side of history.”—Atlanta Journal-Constitution When Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir. His daughter, Kathleen—with the help of her brothers and mother—took up the task of editing and completing the book. A Boy from Georgia—the result of this posthumous father-daughter collaboration—chronicles Hamilton Jordan’s childhood in Albany, Georgia, charting his moral and intellectual development as he gradually discovers the complicated legacies of racism, religious intolerance, and southern politics, and affords his readers an intimate view of the state’s wheelers and dealers. Jordan’s middle-class childhood was bucolic in some ways and traumatizing in others. As Georgia politicians battled civil rights leaders, a young Hamilton straddled the uncomfortable line between the southern establishment to which he belonged and the movement in which he believed. Fortunate enough to grow up in a family that had considerable political clout within Georgia, Jordan eventually became a key aide to Jimmy Carter and was the architect of Carter’s stunning victory in 1976, later serving as his chief of staff. Clear-eyed about the triumphs and tragedies of Jordan’s beloved home state and region, A Boy from Georgia tells the story of a remarkable life in a voice that is witty, vivid, and honest. “A delightful and inspiring coming-of-age story brimming with funny anecdotes, family mysteries, and political intrigue.”—Hank Klibanoff, coauthor of The Race Beat: The Press, the Civil Rights Struggle, and the Awakening of a Nation
Author: Erskine Caldwell Publisher: Open Road Media ISBN: 145321710X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 163
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DIVDIVFourteen stories that follow a young boy coming of age in a dysfunctional family in the rural South /div DIVMeet William Stroop, a young son of the South whose charming voice and mordant observations of family and culture make him one of American literature’s most memorable narrators. In these fourteen interwoven stories, William details the high (and low) points of his family history, focusing particularly on his lazy, scheming father, Morris, his put-upon mother, Martha, and his confidante, Handsome Brown, a young black farmhand. As Morris matches wits with strangers and neighbors alike in constant pursuit of get-rich-quick plans, Martha tries to hold the family together without the aid of any discernable income./divDIV /divDIVTold with the polish and moral resonance of fables, Georgia Boy captures the beauty and tragedy of life in the rural South during the twentieth century./divDIV /divDIVThis ebook features an illustrated biography of Erskine Caldwell including rare photos and never-before-seen documents courtesy of the Dartmouth College Library./div/div
Author: Erskine Caldwell Publisher: ISBN: Category : African American boys Languages : en Pages : 256
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The Georgia boy is twelve years old, and the household in which he is brought up includes his father, Morris Stroup, a somewhat strong-minded and itinerant character, and his mother, Martha Stroup, trying to raise her young son and cope with her husband, some aggravating goats, game cocks, and a lazy colored yard boy named Handsome Brown, who has a hand in practically everything. Mrs. Stroup raises her family with the grace of any woman who has been supporting herself and household as long as she can remember. Georgia Boy is a new sort of book from the pen of Erskine Caldwell. It is a tale of boyhood woven from memory and fancy, altogether a charming story. While the complete measure of the book might be humorous in tone, Georgia Boy is balanced by sentiment, irony, and enough of the ordinary in everyday life to be compared with such other wholly delightful books in the same field as Clarence Day’s Life with Father and Ruth McKenney’s My Sister Eileen.--From dust jacket.
Author: Louise Rennison Publisher: Harper Collins ISBN: 006058937X Category : Juvenile Fiction Languages : en Pages : 324
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We are going to Hamburger-a-gogo land! We are going there so that I can follow the Luuurve God, Masimo. He has gone to visit his olds, leaving me, his new (and lurker-free) nearly girlfriend, in Billy Shakespeare land. So he thinks! Imagine how thrilled he will be when I pop up where he is and say “Howdy!” Or whatever it is they say over there. Let the overseas snog fest begin!!! Georgia can't wait to visit Hamburger-a-gogo land with Jas in tow so she can finally track down Masimo, the Italian-American dreamboat. But after a long week in America, Georgia only succeeds in learning importantish things -- like how to ride a bucking bronco -- before she's dragged back to England by Mutti and Vati.Will Georgia be able to reel in the Italian dreamboat, or is she destined to live forever all aloney on her owney?
Author: Joel Chandler Harris Publisher: University of Georgia Press ISBN: 082032373X Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 249
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The enduring fame of Joel Harris as a skillful storyteller had its beginning with the publication of the first of his enchanting Uncle Remus stories. These and other local color tales were written to sound as if they were being told to a group of small children on a winter night beside a blazing fireplace of a middle Georgia farmhouse. And ever since his stories first appeared in print, it has yet to be resolved who enjoys them the most--a child or the adult reading them aloud.
Author: Joseph Bruchac Publisher: Penguin ISBN: 1101664800 Category : Young Adult Fiction Languages : en Pages : 242
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"Readers who choose the book for the attraction of Navajo code talking and the heat of battle will come away with more than they ever expected to find."—Booklist, starred review Throughout World War II, in the conflict fought against Japan, Navajo code talkers were a crucial part of the U.S. effort, sending messages back and forth in an unbreakable code that used their native language. They braved some of the heaviest fighting of the war, and with their code, they saved countless American lives. Yet their story remained classified for more than twenty years. But now Joseph Bruchac brings their stories to life for young adults through the riveting fictional tale of Ned Begay, a sixteen-year-old Navajo boy who becomes a code talker. His grueling journey is eye-opening and inspiring. This deeply affecting novel honors all of those young men, like Ned, who dared to serve, and it honors the culture and language of the Navajo Indians. An ALA Best Book for Young Adults "Nonsensational and accurate, Bruchac's tale is quietly inspiring..."—School Library Journal
Author: Hamilton Jordan
Author: Hamilton Jordan
Author: Hamilton Jordan
Author: Erskine Caldwell
Author: Erskine Caldwell
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Author: Billy Young
Author: Louise Rennison
Author: Joel Chandler Harris
Author: Patrick Phillips
Author: Joseph Bruchac