num_pages: 361
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Journey Proud: Recollections of a Fifties Woman
titlecomplete: Journey Proud: Recollections of a Fifties Woman
ratings_count: 2
publisher: Oak Tree Press, Inc