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Alone Atop the Hill
Carol McCabe . Ed(S): Booker
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Description for Alone Atop the Hill
Paperback. Editor(s): Booker, Carol McCabe. Num Pages: 240 pages, 27 black & white photographs. BIC Classification: 1KBBSK; 3JJ; JFD; JFFK; JFSL3; KNTJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 229 x 152 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan’s dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women’s history, and the civil rights movement and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American.
Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a ... Read more
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan’s dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women’s history, and the civil rights movement and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American.
Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2016
Publisher
University of Georgia Press United States
Number of pages
240
Condition
New
Number of Pages
240
Place of Publication
Georgia, United States
ISBN
9780820351384
SKU
V9780820351384
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About Carol McCabe . Ed(S): Booker
Carol McCabe Booker is a former journalist and Washington, D.C., attorney. She is coauthor with her husband, journalist Simeon Booker, of the highly acclaimed history Shocking the Conscience: A Reporter’s Account of the Civil Rights Movement.
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