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Author
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Mazie Hirono is one of the most fiercely outspoken Democrats in Congress, but her journey to the U.S. Senate was far from likely. Raised poor on her family's rice farm in rural Japan, Hirono was seven years old when her mother left her abusive husband and sailed with her two elder children to the United States, crossing the Pacific in steerage in search of a better life. Though the girl then known as "Keiko" did not speak English when she entered...
Author
Publisher
McClelland & Stewart
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
This memoir recalls the boyhood years of Ontario's future lieutenant-governor, living in a dilapidated old house complete with outdoor toilet and coal oil-lamp lighting. Behind the outrageous stories, larger-than life-characters, and descriptions of the mores of a small village in the heart of Ontario's cottage country are flashes of insight from the perspective of a child that recall the great classicWho has Seen the Wind by W.O. Mitchell. But why...
Author
Series
Clifton and Shirley Caldwell Texas heritage volume no. 12
Publisher
University of Texas Press
Pub. Date
2008
Language
English
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