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Conversations |
| William Jefferson Clinton, From Hope to Harlem |
Author: Janis F. Kearney
ISBN: 0976205815
Format: Hardcover, 400pp
Pub. Date: September 2006
Publisher: Writing our World Press
List Price: $27.95
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Former Clinton
diarist, Janis F. Kearney, pens a biography that is part historical narrative
and part oral history. In 2001, Kearney began a journey, seeking black
American's stories about the south that shaped a man and a leader such as
William Jefferson Clinton; and memories about the Man, from those who knew him.
Over a two year span she collected conversations, memories, stories with men
and women from across the country. These conversations, and a carefully painted
abstract of the pre-civil rights Arkansas that Bill Clinton called home; are
the centerpieces of this biography.
Conversations, includes rare and unheard voices of black Americans speaking
candidly about America's 42nd President. Their memories, stories and thoughts
on William J. Clinton, the man, the president and the enigma offer unique and
rare pictures of Bill Clinton and his role in American history. Interviews
include: former President William J. Clinton; former Transportation Secretary
Rodney Slater, U.S. Congressman John Lewis; NFPW Founder and President Dorothy
Height; Baseball Great Hank Aaron; former city mayors Marc Morial, of New
Orleans; Wellington Webb, of Denver; Bill Campbell, of Atlanta; Pulitzer Prize
winning author David Levering, of Rutgers University; Harvard Sociologist and
professor, William Julius Wilson, and many more. |
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Arkansas native Janis F. Kearney, a writer, lecturer and oral historian
proudly describes herself as an Arkansas sharecropper's daughter. She grew up
in the southeast Arkansas delta in a family of 17 children. In love with
writing since childhood, she met and worked with newspaper publisher and civil
rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates; becoming publisher of the award-winning
Arkansas State Press Newspaper, in 1987. Kearney made history in 1995 when she
became President William Jefferson Clinton's personal diarist, serving in that
role for more than five years. |
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