Granny D : walking across America in my ninetieth year

Haddock, Doris (Author). Burke, Dennis (Added Author).

Summary: On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris Haddock completed a fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. --undertaken to draw attention to the need for national campaign finance reform. In those 3,200 miles, she met thousands of people who added their voices to hers. On the journey, Doris kept a diary tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events and the people she met.

Item details

ISBN: 0375505393 (acid-free paper)
ISBN: 9780375505393 (acid-free paper)
Physical Description: print
xv, 285 p. : ill ; 22 cm.
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Villard Books, c2001.

Contents / Notes

Formatted Contents Note:

Foreword / Bill Moyers -- Desert Overture -- My Crazy Idea -- Getting in Shape -- Holiday Farewell -- On the Beach -- A Man Magnet -- The Mojave -- The Colorado River -- Salome, but Not Dancing -- Dusting Myself Off -- A Senator in Hiding -- The Reservation -- Fraternity Boys and Bikers in Tucson -- Tombstone -- Tail Winds in New Mexico -- Skinny-dipping and Remembering Dundee -- Under the Crescent Moon -- Nick -- Coming Alive -- Wild Texas -- Grass for Snow -- The Big Enchilada -- A Land Waiting for Rain -- Cloudsplitters -- The Long X Ranch -- The Grasshopper Queens -- Purple Glass -- Center of the World -- A Texas Do-Si-Do -- Roadside Biology -- Through the Looking Glass -- Our Traveling Circus -- The Jeffersonian Hi -- Thunder and Rain -- Beyond Hope -- Dividing Lines -- Little Rock -- I Mistreat Ken -- Money in Politics Is Not a Bloodless Issue -- The Greasy Limpopo -- The Boys -- I Am a Person -- Growing Up -- Into the Hard World -- Meaningful Things -- Pretty Old for a Damsel -- Get Up and Walk -- Sneaking into Washington -- Kentucky -- Please Come to Boston -- Across the Ohio -- Alaska -- A Familiar Old Face Returns -- Along the CandO -- A Few Days to Washington -- The Evening and Next Day -- Back Home and Onward -- Selected Speeches of Doris Haddock.

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