Journey Proud: Recollections of a Fifties Woman - Hardcover

Sargent, Claire King

9780966833256: Journey Proud: Recollections of a Fifties Woman

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0966833252 ISBN 13: 9780966833256

Publisher: Oak Tree Press, Inc, 1999

Claire King Sargent uprooted herself from an idyllic 1950s girlhood in Jackson, Miss., to become a "career girl" in New York City. That bold move started her on an amazing and often tumultuous path that eventually led to a U.S. Senate race in Arizona. Her memoir, Journey Proud: Recollections of a Fifties Woman, chronicles Sargent's life from Mississippi to New York City, to traditional fifties suburban wife and mother, until, she says, " - I had a painful awakening and all hell broke loose; and ...wound up, a different person in a different life in Arizona."

Journey Proud is both a personal tale and the story of an entire generation of the women who came of age in the fifties, "... many of us suffering as we struggled to reconcile our upbringing with the changes swirling around us in the sixties and seventies."

Followers of national politics may recognize Sargent as the refreshingly outspoken and often-humorous 1992 Democratic challenger to U.S. Senator John McCain. Sargent began writing Journey Proud as a book about that campaign. But she realized that the Senate race was only part of the story - the part about the person she'd become, not the one she'd been.

She tells her story with wit, compassion and understanding as she makes sense of the changes that are happening to her and around her. And even readers who hate politics will relish Sargent's unflinching inside story of what really happens when an "upstart" challenges a powerful incumbent and the Washington elite.

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From the Author:

Though I have no idea of its true definition or etymology, until the day she died, my mother always invoked the Deep South expression "Journey Proud" to describe the fever, the anticipation, of getting ready to leave home for somewhere she'd never been before. It wasn't until after I finished my book that it came to me that my mother's words were a perfect metaphor for my life. If I had to encapsulate what the book is about - hard for a Southerner - I would say: In a journey from Mississippi to New York to Arizona, this is the story of a woman who, after a mid-life awakening, begins to search for her own identity and along the way, runs for the U.S. Senate.

About the Author:

Claire King Sargent is a community leader whose eclectic interests extend from the grassroots to the global. She has been writing all of her adult life. In Arizona, Sargent's work has been featured in Arizona Women's Voice, as a political 'pundit' in the now-defunct Phoenix Gazette, and in columns in the Arizona Republic. Sargent lives in Phoenix and New York City with her husband, Henry Sargent. In addition to her own three children, she is stepmother to three and grandmother of three grandsons and two step-granddaughters. Journey Proud is her first book.

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