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The Broken Road
George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation
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The Broken Road
Narrado por:
Caitlin Thorburn
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Caitlin Thorburn
From the daughter of one of America’s most virulent segregationists, a memoir that reckons with her father George Wallace’s legacy of hate—and illuminates her journey towards redemption.
Peggy Wallace Kennedy has been widely hailed as the “symbol of racial reconciliation” (Washington Post). In the summer of 1963, though, she was just a young girl watching her father stand in a schoolhouse door as he tried to block two African-American students from entering the University of Alabama. This man, former governor of Alabama and presidential candidate George Wallace, was notorious for his hateful rhetoric and his political stunts. But he was also a larger-than-life father to young Peggy, who was taught to smile, sit straight, and not speak up as her father took to the political stage. At the end of his life, Wallace came to renounce his views, although he could never attempt to fully repair the damage he caused. But Peggy, after her own political awakening, dedicated her life to spreading the new Wallace message—one of peace and compassion.
In this powerful new memoir, Peggy looks back on the politics of her youth and attempts to reconcile her adored father with the man who coined the phrase “Segregation now. Segregation tomorrow. Segregation forever.”
Timely and timeless, The Broken Road speaks to change, atonement, activism, and racial reconciliation.©2019 Peggy Wallace Kennedy (P)2019 Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
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This . . . fascinating and unflinching memoir from the daughter of former Alabama governors George and Lurleen Wallace . . . explores Peggy Wallace Kennedy’s journey from a little girl defending her father as a “segregationist” and not a “racist” to an adult grappling with his civil rights legacy and seeking racial justice.
If an enduring face of the pain and promise of the Civil Rights movement is Rep. John Lewis (D.Ga.), then Peggy Wallace Kennedy has become a symbol of racial reconciliation. In speeches and interviews over the past few years, the diminutive daughter of segregationist Alabama Governor George Wallace looms large as an authoritative voice in acknowledging a painful past as part of a larger effort to move our nation forward.
In her new memoir . . . [Kennedy] recounts what it was like to grow up as the child of a man the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. once called "the most dangerous racist in America." Her book is an unflinching look at how her father's politics warped his personal life and clouded his daughter's conscience . . . With startling candor, Kennedy takes on her own denial as well as her father's.
Wallace Kennedy, who avoided the spotlight for years, is now using her voice to promote racial healing.
George C. Wallace, perennial Alabama governor and presidential candidate, was Donald Trump’s John the Baptist, and so as a public record, this memoir by Wallace’s anti-racist daughter can read like prophecy more than history. But it’s as a sometimes painful personal accounting of life under Wallace that The Broken Road is most searingly revelatory, especially to those of us who lived through her father’s reign of civic doom and racial carnage. Peggy Wallace Kennedy’s story of the havoc-making ‘family man’ is delivered with style, sly humor, and an admirable measure of dispassion. And it seems like an act of grace for Peggy to have ended up on the right side of the Selma Bridge, holding the hand of Congressman John Lewis. May our country end up so fortunate.
The daughter of George Wallace, the virulently segregationist Alabama governor,…Kennedy relates the story of the historic civil rights march in Selma and her attempts to make reparations… [and] recounts how in both word and deed her father, late in his life, repented for his past.
An intimate portrait of a daughter’s struggle to grapple with a father whom she loves but whose politics she abhors and her extraordinary odyssey to find her own voice. Peggy’s story, imbued with atonement, redemption, and healing grace is especially important now, when our country is more divided than anytime in the last fifty years.
This brave and sobering memoir by the daughter of the notorious segregationist seeks to elucidate her father's character while still holding the man to account.
The redemption Peggy offers in The Broken Road is the hope that pain is not where it will end. . . . [It is] is a multi-layered memoir, searing in its candor.
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