Barbara Jordan | Barbara Jordan

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Author: Shelby Hearon, Barbara Jordan
First Published: 1978
Time of Work: 1918–1977
Setting: Texas, Massachusetts, and Washington, D.C.
Principal Characters: Barbara Jordan, John Ed Patten, Ben Jordan, Arlyne Jordan, Bennie and Rose Mary Jordan, Lyndon Baines Johnson, Nancy Earl, Bud Myers, Jimmy Carter
Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography
Subjects: African Americans, Social action, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, Politics, Racism, Autobiography, West, U.S., Politicians, Texas, Democratic Party, Political conventions
Locales: Washington, D.C., Massachusetts, Texas

In Barbara Jordan: A Self-Portrait, the former United States congresswoman from Texas collaborated with a novelist to create a multifaceted approach to the politician’s life story. With Shelby Hearon’s background and Jordan’s simple, conversational style, the book reads like a novel. In addition, the alternating movement between the objective, third-person narrative sections provided by the former and the frank, detailed, first-person account provided by the latter replicates the feel of a documentary film, as if interspersing comment on the...

Barbara Jordan | Barbara Jordan

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