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Janny Scott author of The Beneficiary

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"This elegant memoir offers a vertiginous look at where our age of inequality might lead."

—Ian Frazier, nationally bestselling author of Family and Great Plains

2018-12-11T14:42:20-05:00

—Ian Frazier, nationally bestselling author of Family and Great Plains

"This elegant memoir offers a vertiginous look at where our age of inequality might lead."
"A remarkable book . . . Scott, who has an eye for the telling detail, writes with wit and flair."

—Frances FitzGerald, author of National Book Critics Circle Award–winning The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

2018-12-11T14:43:44-05:00

—Frances FitzGerald, author of National Book Critics Circle Award–winning The Evangelicals: The Struggle to Shape America

"A remarkable book . . . Scott, who has an eye for the telling detail, writes with wit and flair."
"A rare combination of wit, empathy, candor and shrewd sleuthing."

—Geoffrey C. Ward, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905–1928

2018-12-17T17:19:59-05:00

—Geoffrey C. Ward, author of the National Book Critics Circle Award–winning A First-Class Temperament: The Emergence of Franklin Roosevelt, 1905–1928

"A rare combination of wit, empathy, candor and shrewd sleuthing."
"more than a family saga...a detailed social history of a vanished era in our past, of a place and time quite unlike our own."

—David Nasaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriarch and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Andrew Carnegie

2018-12-11T14:43:01-05:00

—David Nasaw, New York Times bestselling author of The Patriarch and Pulitzer Prize–finalist Andrew Carnegie

"more than a family saga...a detailed social history of a vanished era in our past, of a place and time quite unlike our own."

Janny Scott author of The Beneficiary and A Singular Woman The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother

Janny Scott is the author of The Beneficiary: Fortune, Misfortune, and the Story of My Father and A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama’s Mother. She was a reporter for The New York Times from 1994 to 2009 and was a member of the Times reporting team that won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for national reporting.

A Singular Woman: The Untold Story of Barack Obama's Mother by Janny Scott