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We end in joy : memoirs of a first daughter / Angela Fordice Jordan ; foreword by Marshall Ramsey.

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Format:
Book
Author/Creator:
Jordan, Angela Fordice, 1957-
Language:
English
Subjects (All):
Press and politics--Mississippi.
Press and politics.
Political culture--Mississippi.
Political culture.
Mississippi--Politics and government--1951-.
Mississippi.
Mississippi--Biography.
Jordan, Angela Fordice, 1957-.
Jordan, Angela Fordice.
Jordan, Angela Fordice, 1957---Family.
Fordice, Daniel Kirkwood, 1934-2004.
Fordice, Daniel Kirkwood.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (200 p.)
Edition:
1st ed.
Place of Publication:
Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, c2012.
Language Note:
English
Summary:
We End in Joy: Memoirs of a First Daughter offers an extraordinary perspective on public life in an intimate account from the daughter of a highly controversial southern governor and a widely beloved first lady.Angela Jordan enjoyed a comfortable and quiet life in Vicksburg, the small southern town in which she was reared. She was a thirty-five-year-old mother of three daughters, and a woman with a politically liberal bent, when, against all history's odds, Mississippians elected her conservative Republican father, Kirk Fordice, governor in 1991.Suddenly fate threw the whole Fordice family int
Contents:
Cover; Contents; Foreword; Introduction; PART ONE; How They Met; Shrill Bitches; The Red Dress; A Really Big Fish; The Big Color TV; Snake Handling; Kitten Tails and Al Capone; PART TWO; Garage Sale; Unexpected Friends; Politicians; Famous Folk; How I Offended a Former President and His Wife and Then Saved Them Both from a National Incident; Feet of Clay; Hustle; PART THREE; Snow Globe; The Dance; The Beast Within; Supernova; Pink Petunias and Mary's Tears; The Gray Cloud of Regret; Eating the Elephant; Bolting; Iona; PART FOUR; The Great Abyss; Orphan Solidarity; The Tenacity of Joy
With Humility and Gratitude
Notes:
Description based upon print version of record.
Description based on print version record.
ISBN:
1-62103-702-9
1-283-52407-4
9786613836526
1-61703-606-4
OCLC:
774213766

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