Clarence B Jones, Stuart Connelly

Last of the Lions

An African American Journey in Memoir

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Produktbeschreibung

"Last of the Lions is two histories woven into one remarkable story personal history--the evocative life of Clarence B. Jones, from his depression- and segregation-era upbringing at the hands of caring Irish Catholic nuns through our current era (when America elected a President to follow the first black man to hold the office with a man dog-whistling to white supremacists for four years). And all the amazing moments in between..."--

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Redhawk Publications
• Seitenzahl: 411
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. August 2023
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 162mm x 36mm
• Gewicht: 816g
• ISBN-13: 9781952485930
• ISBN-10: 1952485932
• Artikelnr.: 68542137

Autorenporträt

Clarence B. Jones served as speechwriter and counsel to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., partnered with Sanford I. Weill and Arthur Levitt, Jr. in the Wall Street investment banking firm Carter, Berlind & Weill, and was the editor-in-chief and publisher of the Amsterdam News. Dr. Jones has been visiting professor at Stanford University and the scholar-in-residence at Stanford's Martin Luther King, Jr. Institute and co-founder of the Clarence B. Jones Institute for Non-Violence and Social Justice at the University of San Francisco. Author, screenwriter and director Stuart Connelly has been a professional storyteller for more than twenty-five years. A graduate of Syracuse University's S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications, he is the author of several books including the award-winning Behind the Dream: The Speech That Transformed a Nation, (his first collaboration with Dr. Jones) and the upcoming family memoir Offered In Secret