When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind amostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the last decade. Jordan s 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 intolerance, and southern politics, and affords his...
When Hamilton Jordan died of peritoneal mesothelioma in 2008, he left behind amostly finished memoir, a book on which he had been working for the l...