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Also by Janis F. Kearney:

Something To Write Home About, November 2008
Hardcover
Cotton Field Of Dreams, January 2007
Paperback
Conversations, January 2007
Paperback

COTTON FIELD OF DREAMS
By: Janis F. Kearney

A Memoir Cotton Field of Dreams: a Memoir is an American story?in black and white; a poignant memoir by the former diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton who shares her journey from the cotton Janis F. Kearney & Tony Blair during the author's UK t

Writing Our World Press
January 2007
On Sale: January 1, 2007
Featuring: Janis Kearney
337 pages
ISBN: 0976205831
EAN: 9780976205838
Paperback
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Non-Fiction Memoir

Cotton Field of Dreams: a Memoir is an American story—in black and white; a poignant memoir by the former diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton who shares her journey from the cotton fields of the Arkansas delta, to the West Wing of the White House. It is an American story featuring the pre-civil rights south where cotton was king and education was the carrot that stayed just out of reach for many blacks.

Cotton Field of Dreams, a lesson in southern and women’s history, paints a vivid picture of roles played out by the women, children and family in the Arkansas delta. It is about the hard lessons children of cotton sharecroppers learned from under-educated but wise parents whose greatest gift was their children’s permission to dream. This story memorializes James and Ethel Kearney who taught their 17 children that nothing was too far out of reach if they put their minds and hearts into it. Their story is about the miracle of the south, and the limitless vision, the unflinching faith, and daring dreams of a poor, black family on Varner Road.

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