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(0)Janny Scott
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"Journalist Janny Scott describes the world that shaped her father, Robert Montgomery Scott (whose mother, Helen Hope Scott, was said to have inspired Katherine Hepburn's character in the play and the film The Philadelphia Story), and provides a look at the weight of inheritance, the tenacity of addiction, and the power of buried secrets"--
Land, houses, and money tumbled from one generation to the next on the eight-hundred-acre estate built by Scott's...
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The New York Times bestseller-an unprecedented look into the life and character of the woman who raised a president.
Barack Obama has written extensively about his father but credited his mother for "what is best in me." Still, little is known about this fiercely independent, spirited woman who raised the man who became the first biracial president of the United States. This book is that story.
In A Singular Woman,
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