The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter's Journey to Reconciliation

by Peggy Wallace Kennedy

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1635573653
• ISBN13: 9781635573657
• Release Date: December 2019
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
• Length: 304 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 5.8" x 8.3"