With extraordinary candor and a Southern flair for storytelling, President Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, discusses the ups and downs of a life marked by the challenges of single parenthood, breast cancer, alcoholism, and abuse. 2 cassettes.
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From Publishers Weekly
In 1946 when Virginia Kelley was six months pregnant with the future U.S. president, her husband, William ("Bill") Jefferson Blythe III, newly returned from the WW II Army, was killed in a car crash. Bill Clinton, who legally took his stepfather's name, mythologized the father he never knew, but he also loved his physically and verbally abusive, alcoholic, gambling stepfather Roger ("Dude"), whom Virginia was to divorce and then remarry because she felt sorry for him. In her highly candid, moving autobiography written with freelancer Morgan, the president's late mother, who died in January, comes across as outspoken, spunky, impulsive and tough. She discusses her hot-tempered, morphine-addicted mother whom she committed to a mental hospital for seven months, her four husbands and her anti-monopoly lawsuit as a nurse anesthetist against the Arkansas medical establishment which she accuses of forcing her out of the profession. She also reveals her "tough love" for her cocaine-abusing son Roger, her initial dislike of Hillary Rodham and her struggle with cancer. Photos not seen by PW. First serial to Good Housekeeping; Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club featured alternates.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
Ever since the days of George Washington, Americans have been fascinated with the domestic lives of their Presidents. The autobiography of President Clinton's mother, Virginia Kelley, arrives within months of her death. The recollections of this colorful, thrice-widowed woman who "led with her heart" are forthright and funny. With Rue McClanahan's skillful narration, we come to know what was behind Kelley's well-coiffed and highly made-up persona (Kelley describes her elaborate toilette-a daily ritual that comforted her through the numerous crises in her life). This is not an exercise in self-revelation. However, the anecdotes and the personal philosophy of this woman are charming and will be popular with public library audiences.
Reilly Reagan, Putnam Cty. Lib., Cookeville, Tenn.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Reilly Reagan, Putnam Cty. Lib., Cookeville, Tenn.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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