Vernon Can Read! A Memoir

Jordan, Vernon E., Jr.; Gordon-Reed, Annette; Annette Gordon-Reed

ISBN 10: 189162069X / ISBN 13: 9781891620690

Published by PublicAffairs, 2001

About this Item

1st Printing. "Vernon can read" is the title of a 2001 memoir by civil rights leader Vernon E. Jordan Jr., which recounts his life from his youth as a summer job driver who surprised his white employer with his intellect, to his career as a prominent civil rights activist, presidential advisor, and corporate executive. The title is a reference to a specific incident in his past, where his boss exclaimed, "Vernon can read!" when he discovered Jordan reading books during his boss's afternoon naps.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Vernon Can Read! A Memoir
• Publisher: PublicAffairs
• Publication Date: 2001
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 189162069X
• ISBN 13: 9781891620690
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Weight: 1 pound
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The civil rights leader, attorney, and former head of the National Urban League recounts his boyhood in segregated Atlanta, his career, and the social changes he helped to bring about.

About the Author

Vernon E. Jordan, Jr., one of the major civil rights figures in American history, is now a senior managing director of the investment firm Lazard Frères & Co. Annette Gordon-Reed is a graduate of Dartmouth College and Harvard Law School and is a professor at New York Law School. She is the author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy. She lives in New York City.