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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."
https://jannyscott.com/testimonials/ian-frazier/
"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."
https://jannyscott.com/testimonials/frances-fitzgerald/
"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."
https://jannyscott.com/testimonials/geoffrey-c-ward/
"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."
https://jannyscott.com/testimonials/david-nasaw/

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

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