Life Lessons My Mother Taught Me
Subtitle: Universal Values from Extraordinary Times
Publisher: Tarcher
Published: January 24, 2000
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 255
ISBN-13: 9781585420070
Subjects: Biography: general; United States; Conduct of life; Biography; Young, Jean Childs; Biography / Autobiography; Philosophy; Biography/Autobiography; USA; Daughters; People of Color; Personal Memoirs; Women; Family & Relationships / General; Anecdotes; African American mothers; African American women
First sentence: During her sixty-two years of life, my mother evolved from fresh-faced country girl to demure preacher's wife to harried young mother and schoolteacher to her final metamorphosis as a mature, confident, stylish woman at ease with any class of people anywhere in the world.
Description: Jean Young was a respected advocate in the civil rights and children's rights movements. She was the wife of former U.N. ambassador and Atlanta mayor, Andrew Young. Their daughter, Andrea Young, has written this book as a celebration of a "good mother, a life well lived and worth emulating, and values that can help us all become more ethical people, more loving parents, and better citizens of our own communities"--Jacket.