On the Home Front - Everyday American Life from Prohibition to World War Two (Paperback)

"Jack Clark's wondrous celebration of his working-class mother and her natural gifts as a storyteller has touched me deeply. Hooray for Mary Jo Ryan Clark and her boy Jack." --Studs Terkel "The book itself is a marvel of writerly restraint... Some are private moments--being 4 years old, getting shiny new shoes and remembering looking down at them as she toed circles in the sawdust on a butcher shop floor. "Other brush against history--news of Pearl Harbor, or the Dorchester, a World War II troop ship sunk off the coast of Greenland. It was famous for the four chaplains who gave up their life vests to other sailors, but Bill, who was dating Mary Jo's younger sister, wasn't one of the lucky survivors... "The books strength is that it doesn't stoop to Greatest Generation mythologizing. The Clarks are real people, and Mary Jo doesn't try to make them heroes." --Chicago Sun-Times Mary Jo and Jack Clark are also authors of "Private Path -- The Desk Calendars of Mary Jo Ryan, 1937 -- 1943."

General

Imprint:	Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Mary Jo Clark, 1
Release date:	May 2012
First published:	May 2012
Authors:	Jack Clark • Mary Jo Clark
Dimensions:	203 x 133 x 10mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade
Pages:	168
ISBN-13:	978-1-4751-7060-3
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > General Books > Biography > General
LSN:	1-4751-7060-2
Barcode:	9781475170603

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