In Mercedes, Texas, tensions are high during the summer of 1963. When Alton Baker's father accepts a job in Brownsville that comes with a long daily commute, he invites Alton to share the ride, allowing him to change schools. Alton, an intelligent, f...
" ...]and her life. But that was eight years ago. Now Emeline could see that she had reached-more, she had passed-her prime. She began to see that the moods of those early years, however violent and changing, had been fed upon secret springs of hope,...
A wildly entertaining biography of the trailblazing Washington columnist and the first woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for commentary Before there was Maureen Dowd or Gail Collins or Molly Ivins, there was Mary McGrory. She was a trailblazing co...