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6 x 9 Paperback |
ISBN: 9781598003321 |
$18.95 |
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BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Personal Memoirs |
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Jul 28, 2006 |
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228 |
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WAVING A SUNFLOWER AT FDR -- This childhood prank by the author is one of many lively recollections in this photo-studded account of a family history extending back to the American Revolution. Growing up during the Great Depression on Meridian Street, the book's title, he recounts an award-winning newspaper and Washington career during which he was eyewitness to important political and historic events of the past six decades, including the enactment of monumental civil rights legislation, the Vietnam War turmoil, the Watergate era and the Saturday night massacre, the Kent State killings, the chaotic Boston school desegregation, and the Wounded Knee conflict.
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First Chapter
Meridian Street was Anneke McCray's street of dreams. From early grade-school days before the First World War, she longed to live on the wide thoroughfare lined by the elegant homes of prominent people. It was her status symbol: a prestige address where the "best" people in town lived. Vice Presidents and governors, mayors and authors, bankers and successful merchants built ornate homes with vast lawns on North Meridian Street...
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About John V. Wilson, Jr.
John V. Wilson, Jr., born in Indianapolis, Indiana, in 1926, writes about his heritage and his three careers. For almost twenty years, he reported for the Indianapolis Times, and served as Washington correspondent for the Times, the Evansville (Ind.) Press, and the Birmingham (Ala.) Post-Herald. He served another twenty years in federal government posts, principally as a press spokesman for the U.S. Department of Justice from 1969 to 1986. After serving stateside in the Second World War, he joined the Air Force Reserve, served twenty-eight years, including a European assignment, and retired as a lieutenant colonel. He and his wife, Joy, live in Pinellas Park, Florida. He has two children, five grandchildren, and one great-grandson.
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