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A Boy from Georgia: Coming of Age in the Segregated South
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Rating: 3.5
This memoir, edited by his daughter, covers the growing-up years of the late Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff for President Jimmy Carter. Jordan grew up in Albany, Georgia. There's a lot in his story that parallels my experience a few years later in northeastern Tennessee, although (since my hometown was less than 10% African-American) his experience with civil rights issues was more intense than mine. That part of his story is especially interesting, since he clearly grasped the moral issues involved, and also clearly understood that he spent a lot of time ducking them. The book is clearly but not eloquently written and has a few errors that his daughter did not correct (Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew's Theater, not the Fox, e.g.), but it was an interesting and somewhat nostalgic read for me, and I'm glad I read it.
This memoir, edited by his daughter, covers the growing-up years of the late Hamilton Jordan, chief of staff for President Jimmy Carter. Jordan grew up in Albany, Georgia. There's a lot in his story that parallels my experience a few years later in northeastern Tennessee, although (since my hometown was less than 10% African-American) his experience with civil rights issues was more intense than mine. That part of his story is especially interesting, since he clearly grasped the moral issues involved, and also clearly understood that he spent a lot of time ducking them. The book is clearly but not eloquently written and has a few errors that his daughter did not correct (Gone with the Wind premiered at Loew's Theater, not the Fox, e.g.), but it was an interesting and somewhat nostalgic read for me, and I'm glad I read it.
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January 29, 2016
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January 30, 2016
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