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A Boy from Georgia - Coming of Age in the Segregated South (Paperback)
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A Boy from Georgia - Coming of Age in the Segregated South (Paperback)
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List price R637
Loot Price R531
Discovery Miles 5 310
You Save R106 (17%)
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When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he
left behind a mostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been
working for the last decade. Jordan's 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
went into politics to put his ideals to work. Eventually he became
a key aide to Jimmy Carter and was the architect of Carter's
stunning victory in the presidential campaign of 1976; Jordan later
served as Carter's 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.
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