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Joycelyn Elders, M.D.: From Sharecropper's Daughter to Surgeon General of the United States of America - Hardcover
BiographyLarge Print Edition* A Literary Guild SelectionDr. Joycelyn Elders received extensive media coverage throughout her tenure as Surgeon General of the United States as a result of her outspoken views. On the heels of intense controversy over a statement she made about sex education, Dr. Elders resigned. But the media frenzy didnt tell the whole story. In this inspiring autobiography, Dr. Elders tells of her life growing up the oldest of eight children born to a sharecropper and his wife in a one-room cabin. Overcoming an impoverished childhood, she went on to college, became a doctor, and rose to the highest medical position in the U.S. Here Dr. Elders frankly addresses some of the issues the media ignored such as the behind-the-scenes machinations of the First Lady and the political circumstances behind the arrest of her son. As she shares her travails and her triumphs in poignant detail, she proves herself to be a truly inspirational African-America woman.
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Dr. Elders, with David Chanoff, has written a folksy and humble account of her life's journey from sharecropper's daughter in rural Arkansas to Surgeon General of the United States. Interestingly, given the controversial circumstances of her forced resignation when she was demonized by the Republican right for open discussion of sexuality, Dr. Elders reveals an upbringing suffused with the sort of family values that she was accused of destroying. "There wasn't any alcoholism," she writes, "nor was there any talk of men beating their wives, or of separation or divorce either." Her own sex education was typically scant, and indeed one has the impression of a woman who remained somewhat naive on such matters even as she gained an education beyond the comprehension of her parents.
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David Chanoff has collaborated on nine other autobiographies, and is Visiting Scholar in the Humanities at Brandeis University.
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- PublisherThorndike Pr
- Publication date1997
- ISBN 10 0786209585
- ISBN 13 9780786209583
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages603
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