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A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South (A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication)
Hamilton Jordan
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Description for A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South (A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication)
Hardcover. Editor(s): Jordan, Kathleen. Series: A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication. Num Pages: 232 pages. BIC Classification: 1KBBFG; 3JJ; 3JMC; BM; HBJK; JPHL; JPVH1. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 30. Weight in Grams: 825.
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.
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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.
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Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2015
Publisher
University of Georgia Press
Condition
New
Series
A Bradley Hale Fund for Southern Studies Publication
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820348896
SKU
V9780820348896
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About Hamilton Jordan
Hamilton Jordan (1944–2008) was chief of staff under President Jimmy Carter from 1979 to 1980. He was key advisor and strategist for Carter’s successful presidential campaign in 1976, and—at the age of twenty-six—Jordan designed and spearheaded Carter’s successful gubernatorial campaign in 1970. Kathleen Jordan is Hamilton Jordan’s daughter and a television producer and writer living in Los Angeles.
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