Jenniemae & James
By: Brooke Newman
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Harmony Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 306
Subjects: Family; Race relations; History; White Men; Biography; African American women; Mathematicians; Women household employees; Friendship; Case studies
Other titles: Jenniemae and James
Description: Recreating the early Civil Rights era, Newman's memoir is a pitch-perfect account of the improbable friendship that developed between mathematician James Newman, friend of Albert Einstein and father of two, and his employee Jenniemae--an illiterate, numbers-savvy maid whom James recruited to take care of his affluent Washington, D.C., home.