With her walk across America at the age of 90, New Hampshire native Doris Haddock entered the national consciousness as "Granny D," a candid and feisty champion of commonsense populist politics. Four years later she ran for the U.S. Senate against the usual entrenched big-party interests--and lost. In the meantime, she became a cause célèbre, and an example of the kind of politics that puts people first. Granny D's American Century is the story of Doris Haddock both before and after these events: as a young woman whose bedrock New England values were tested during the Great Depression, and as a no-nonsense nonagenarian putting those values to work in the causes of voters' rights, women's rights, and campaign finance reform. Written in a clear, unsparing prose, Granny D's American Century is a warm reflection on a life well lived, and a clear and spirited call for virtue in American civic life.

Granny D's American Century

Biographies & Memoirs

Burke, Dennis Michael

Haddock, Doris

Community & Culture

Univ of New Hampshire

Novel set in Los Angeles in the early 1920s, based on the actual Tiger Murder of 1922

Diary of the Tiger Woman: A Natural History of Los Angeles

Literature & Fiction

Action & Adventure

L'Enfant Press

In her walk across the United States at age 90 and in her remarkable speeches along the way, Doris "Granny D" Haddock woke the nation up to the crisis of corruption in American politics. Her activism helped to pass campaign finance reforms in Congress and in many states and set a roadmap for today's ongoing efforts to get big money and corrupt influences out of our democracy. This book contains her story and many of her most memorable speeches-as current today as when she delivered them, in 2000 to 2010.

The Politics of Joy (and Sacrifice): The Fearless Walks and Historic Talks of Doris "Granny D" Haddock

L'Enfant Press - Dennis M. Burke

Historical fiction set in 1911 Arizona Territory, on the eve of statehood

A Place for Our Rain

Genre Fiction

L'Enfant Press, Washington, D.C.

Lenfant Press

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