2020, ISBN: 9781890771676

Hardcover

New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Front Free Endpaper Removed, Fairly Neatly; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled… More...

New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Front Free Endpaper Removed, Fairly Neatly; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. My Life. BOOK NUMBER: 05942200. DESIGNED BY: Bonni Leon. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Mike Stewart/Sygma. JACKET DESIGN: Jackie Seow. SYNOPSIS: "When it comes to lipstick, I say the brighter the better," proclaimed Virginia Kelley of a detail from her famous morning makeup routine. It's a comment that might well stand as a motto for the attitude that carried this remarkable woman through an eventful life. Growing up poor in tine Hope, Arkansas, she was the daughter of an affectionate, self-effacing father and a driven, often explosively angry mother. Virginia would revisit these emotional extremes in her five marriages to four men: handsome, charismatic Bill Blythe, the father Bill Clinton never knew; abusive, alcoholic Roger "Dude" Clinton, whom Bill loved, young Roger hated, and Virginia divorced and then remarried out of pity; flashy-dressing, soft-spoken Jeff Dwire, the hairdresser who did time for stock fraud and convinced Kelley to leave her gray streak undyed; and Dick Kelley, the retired food broker who provided strength and stability during an especially trying time in her life. The challenges were professional as well. To complete her training as a nurse anesthetist, Virginia left baby Bill with her mother while she trained at a hospital in New Orleans. Later, she would be drawn into a "thirty-year war" against the doctors she believed were bent on destroying her Hot Springs practice. But family always came first, and the chapters of her private life will strike deep chords of empathy and inspiration. Her determination to be a good mother to two sons with widely different talents and dreams, which underwent its toughest trial when Roger was arrested and imprisoned for cocaine dealing, will resonate with mothers everywhere. She candidly recalls a bumpy beginning with Hillary Rodham and her eventual decision to bury the hatchet for the sake of her son, opening the door to what would become a relationship of mutual admiration and affection. And, without self-pity, she tells of her courageous fight against breast cancer, which took her from life on January 6, 1994. Laced with Kelley's clear-eyed native optimism, characteristic saltiness, and matchless flair for story-telling, this is an incomparable slice of Southern life that spans a period of enormous social and political change in our nation's history. James Morgan is a former magazine editor and a freelance writer who has written for such publications as The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, Travel and Leisure, and Self. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder., Simon & Schuster Inc., 2.25, DC Comics, 1993. Comic. Good., DC Comics, 1993, 2.5, New York, NY : Sandy Creek, 2014, 2014. Hardcover. Like New. Pages are clean and are not marred by notes or folds of any kind. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., New York, NY : Sandy Creek, 2014, 2014, 5, New York, NY : Sandy Creek, 2014, 2014. Hardcover. Very Good. May have limited writing in cover pages. Pages are unmarked. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less.Dust jacket quality is not guaranteed., New York, NY : Sandy Creek, 2014, 2014, 3, Published by Parables, 2020-05-29. Used - Very Good. A copy that may have been read, very minimal wear and tear. May have a remainder mark., Published by Parables, 2020-05-29, 3, Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2002. Paperback. Very Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. 238 pp. Tightly bound. Spine not compromised. Text is free of markings. No ownership markings. Remainder mark top fore-edge. (one small dot)., MIT Press, 2002, 3, Heyday, 2003. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Large corner crease on back cover. Beautifully illustrated. A powerful examination of labor history in California since the turn of the twentieth century. Artists include Claude Clark, Ester Hernandez, Nancy Hom, Mike Kelley, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Irving Norman, Emmy Lou Packard, and others. 154p. Measures 9x11 inches., Heyday, 2003, 2.5<

2003, ISBN: 9781890771676

Hardcover

New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Front Free Endpaper Removed, Fairly Neatly; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled… More...

New York: Simon & Schuster Inc. BOOK: Remainder Mark; Front Free Endpaper Removed, Fairly Neatly; Corners, Spine, Boards Bumped; Moderate Shelf Rub to Boards; Edges Moderately Soiled; Slight Yellowing Due to Age. DUST JACKET: Repaired; Lightly Creased; Lightly Chipped; Light Moisture Damage (Staining); Slight Yellowing Due to Age; In Archival Quality Jacket Cover. My Life. BOOK NUMBER: 05942200. DESIGNED BY: Bonni Leon. JACKET PHOTOGRAPH: Mike Stewart/Sygma. JACKET DESIGN: Jackie Seow. SYNOPSIS: "When it comes to lipstick, I say the brighter the better," proclaimed Virginia Kelley of a detail from her famous morning makeup routine. It's a comment that might well stand as a motto for the attitude that carried this remarkable woman through an eventful life. Growing up poor in tine Hope, Arkansas, she was the daughter of an affectionate, self-effacing father and a driven, often explosively angry mother. Virginia would revisit these emotional extremes in her five marriages to four men: handsome, charismatic Bill Blythe, the father Bill Clinton never knew; abusive, alcoholic Roger "Dude" Clinton, whom Bill loved, young Roger hated, and Virginia divorced and then remarried out of pity; flashy-dressing, soft-spoken Jeff Dwire, the hairdresser who did time for stock fraud and convinced Kelley to leave her gray streak undyed; and Dick Kelley, the retired food broker who provided strength and stability during an especially trying time in her life. The challenges were professional as well. To complete her training as a nurse anesthetist, Virginia left baby Bill with her mother while she trained at a hospital in New Orleans. Later, she would be drawn into a "thirty-year war" against the doctors she believed were bent on destroying her Hot Springs practice. But family always came first, and the chapters of her private life will strike deep chords of empathy and inspiration. Her determination to be a good mother to two sons with widely different talents and dreams, which underwent its toughest trial when Roger was arrested and imprisoned for cocaine dealing, will resonate with mothers everywhere. She candidly recalls a bumpy beginning with Hillary Rodham and her eventual decision to bury the hatchet for the sake of her son, opening the door to what would become a relationship of mutual admiration and affection. And, without self-pity, she tells of her courageous fight against breast cancer, which took her from life on January 6, 1994. Laced with Kelley's clear-eyed native optimism, characteristic saltiness, and matchless flair for story-telling, this is an incomparable slice of Southern life that spans a period of enormous social and political change in our nation's history. James Morgan is a former magazine editor and a freelance writer who has written for such publications as The Atlantic, Esquire, GQ, The Washington Post Magazine, Travel and Leisure, and Self. He lives in Little Rock, Arkansas.. First Edition 1st Printing. Hard Cover. Fair/Good. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Remainder., Simon & Schuster Inc., 2.25, Heyday, 2003. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Large corner crease on back cover. Beautifully illustrated. A powerful examination of labor history in California since the turn of the twentieth century. Artists include Claude Clark, Ester Hernandez, Nancy Hom, Mike Kelley, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Irving Norman, Emmy Lou Packard, and others. 154p. Measures 9x11 inches., Heyday, 2003, 2.5<

2003, ISBN: 9781890771676

Heyday, 2003. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Large corner crease on back cover. Beautifully illustrated. A powerful examination of labor history in California since the turn of the twentiet… More...

Heyday, 2003. Paperback. Good. Unmarked. Large corner crease on back cover. Beautifully illustrated. A powerful examination of labor history in California since the turn of the twentieth century. Artists include Claude Clark, Ester Hernandez, Nancy Hom, Mike Kelley, Dorothea Lange, Tina Modotti, Irving Norman, Emmy Lou Packard, and others. 154p. Measures 9x11 inches., Heyday, 2003, 2.5<