AUTOGRAPHED Maggie's American Dream JAMES COMER

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Maggie's American Dream Description IMPORTANT: condition descriptions provided by eBay in their 'item specifics' template shown above my listings are likely incorrect due to limitations of the software listing program. MOST of my books are either VERY GOOD or GOOD condition. From Publishers Weekly Maggie's eldest child, the first of her five offspring to achieve advanced degrees, here remembers three generations of his black American family. Resurrecting the tradition of oral family history, Comer, a child psychiatrist, transcribes his mother's reminiscences. She was born in Mississippi in 1904 and matured in an extended sharecropping family, struggling against rampant poverty and racism. Her indomitable spirit, pride and financial acumen would later provide her own children a standard of living unusually high for most blacks and many whites of the Depression years. Interesting contrast is provided in the book's second part by the autobiographical account of the author's formative years. Descriptions of his gentle father's intolerable working conditions at a steel mill, which led to his premature death, are heartbreaking. As the author shows, the quest for personal honor, intellectual excellence and economic success in our bigoted society remains the most valued parental legacy of Maggie's children. Copyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more From Library Journal This poignant book is several stories: the oral history of the struggles of a black mother who saw education as the road to the American dream and propelled her five children to 13 college degrees; the autobiography of a son who credits his mother with his becoming one of America's foremost specialists on the role of social problems in mental health; and proof that social commitment can help solve problems in black communities. More than the document of a single family, this book encapsulates the black South-to-North movement, from days of segregation to days of flickering hope. Highly recommended for Afro- American and American social history collections. Thomas J. Davis, SUNY at BuffaloCopyright 1988 Reed Business Information, Inc. Read more Features: Product Details: Hardcover: 228 pages Publisher: New American Library; 1st Printing edition (November 22, 1988) Language: English ISBN-10: 0453005888 ISBN-13: 83 Product Dimensions: 20 x 20 x 20 inches Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds Handling We will ship all orders within 3 business days of payment. Delivery We do not ship outside of the USA, **except** via eBay Global Shipping Program. [however, for postcards and other lightweight paper items, we DO ship internationally ourselves.] Feedback We take our reputation seriously, we buy and sell online, so we understand the value of trust. If you are unsatisfied with your order, please contact us and we will work with you to resolve it to your satisfaction. PLEASE be aware that if there is just ONE photo in our listings, it means it is a GENERIC STOCK PHOTO. If there are TWO OR MORE PHOTOS, they are photos of the EXACT ITEM YOU WILL RECEIVE.IMPORTANT: condition descriptions provided by eBay in their 'item specifics' template shown above my listings are likely incorrect due to limitations of the software listing program. MOST of my books are either VERY GOOD or GOOD condition. About Us PLEASE NOTE: WHILE WE DO NOT SHIP INTERNATIONALLY OURSELVES, WE DO GLADLY USE EBAY'S GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM SO PLEASE FEEL FREE TO ORDER FROM US NO MATTER WHERE IN THE WORLD YOU LIVE. IF EBAY GLOBAL SHIPPING PROGRAM SHIPS TO YOUR COUNTRY THEN SO DO WE! Further top products See other items 1800 VENDING BULK CANDY & GUMBALL MACHINE CATCH TRAY 1-800 CANDY MACHINES Others USD 19.99 Buy it now Fiesta Multicolor serape Table Runner / New Kohl’s USD 22.99 Buy it now 1 T-007 Pink Key For 1-800 Vending V-Line Pro-Line LYPC Candy Gumball Machine USD 9.99 Buy it now Craftsman & Kobolt Toolbox Set Of Keys 8069 USD 9.99 Buy it now 221314 OLD TOWN HALL HARTFORD CONN CT Connecticut 1916 Postmark USD 21.60 Buy it now Life's Little Instruction Book USD 7.50 Buy it now The Little Fellow: The Life and Work of Charles Spencer Chaplin USD 9.50 Buy it now Four by Truffaut: The Adventures of Antoine Doinel USD 19.99 Buy it now What Was It Like in the Concentration Camp At Dachau? Come Closer to the Truth USD 13.99 Buy it now Little Lavender Book: On the Love That Once Dared Not Speak its Name USD 6.50 Buy it now Touchstones: A Book of Daily Meditations for Men (Hazelden meditation series) USD 13.99 Buy it now Little Miss Late (Mr. Men and Little Miss) USD 6.99 Buy it now Powered by Supreme supremeauctiononlinesoftware.staticWidgets.templateBased

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