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