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American Mom

Motherhood, Politics, and Humble Pie
By Mary Kay Blakely
Hardback
ISBN: 1565120523
ISBN13: 9781565120525
$19.95(US)

 

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Blakely's warm, candid, touching, fiercely loving account of raising two sons will strike a chord with parents in this age of post-nuclear, extended families.--Publishers Weekly, starred; "Witty and piercing."--Newsweek.
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about Mary Kay Blakely
Mary Kay Blakely's essays and articles on social and political issues have appeared in the New York Times, the Washington Post, Vogue, Life, and Mirabella. She is a contributing editor at both Ms. magazine and the L.A. Times Sunday Magazine. Author of the critically acclaimed memoir Wake Me When It's Over, Blakely lectures frequently to community groups and on college campuses. She is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana, and has been on the faculty of Indiana University / Purdue University and The New School for Social Research in New York City.
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