"There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country." On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-old Doris “Granny D” Haddock completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington D.C. She walked through 105-degree deserts and blinding blizzards, despite arthritis and emphysema. Along her way, her remarkable speeches — rich with wisdom, love, and political insight — transformed individuals and communities and jump-started a full-blown movement. She became a national heroine. On her journey, Haddock kept a diary — tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events in her life and the insights that have given her. Granny D celebrates an exuberant life of love, activism, and adventure — from writing one-woman feminist plays in the 1930s to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1960 to Haddock’s current crusade. Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown of Dublin/Peterborough, New Hampshire — Thornton Wilder’s inspirations for Grovers Croner in Out Town — a quintessentially American center of New England pluck, Yankee ingenuity and can-do attitude. Told in Doris Haddock’s distinct and unforgettable voice, Granny D will move, amuse, and inspire readers of all ages with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.

Granny D: Walking Across America in My Ninetieth Year

Biographies & Memoirs

Haddock, Doris

Burke, Dennis M.

Community & Culture

Villard

Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year

A ninety-year-old activist from New Hampshire chronicles her fourteen-month walk across the country to raise awareness of the issue of campaign finance reform, and describes her lifelong commitment to activism and adventure.

Burke, Dennis

Thorndike Pr

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

Burke, Dennis Michael

Univ of New Hampshire

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

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