Hamilton Jordan
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Surviving non-Hodgkins lymphoma, melanoma, and prostate cancer, former White House chief-of-staff Hamilton Jordan shares his personal and political reflections--from his experiences with the Civil Rights movement to his civilian volunteer tour in Vietnam, from his years of scrutiny under the Carter administration to his agonizing, yet triumphant times battling cancer. Quickly motivated to accept cancer as a fact in his life, Jordan deals with the...
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When Hamilton Jordan died in 2008, he left behind a mostly finished memoir. His 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...