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Saving graces : finding solace and strength from friends and strangers / Elizabeth Edwards.

Edwards, Elizabeth, 1949-2010 (Author).

Summary:

During the 2004 presidential campaign, Elizabeth Edwards gained admiration for her smart, likable, and down-to-earth personality. These qualities shine forth in this memoir of trials, triumphs, and tragedies, and of the various communities that celebrated her joys and lent her steady strength and quiet hope in darker times. Growing up in a military family, she learned how to make friends easily in new schools and neighborhoods, and came to appreciate the unstinting help and comfort naval families shared. Her reminiscences of her years as a mother focus on the support parents offer one another. Her descriptions of her husband's campaigns for Senate, president, and vice president offer a perspective on the groups, great and small, that sustain our democracy. Her fight with breast cancer, which stirred an outpouring of support, has once again affirmed Edwards's belief in the power of community to make our lives better and richer.--From publisher description.

Record details

ISBN: 0767925378
ISBN: 9780767925372
Physical Description: 340 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: New York : Broadway Books, [2006]
Copyright: ©2006

Content descriptions

Formatted Contents Note:

Chapter 1 Kenosha 1 -- Chapter 2 Jacksonville 20 -- Chapter 3 Iwakuni, Japan 33 -- Chapter 4 Zama 53 -- Chapter 5 Chapel Hill 64 -- Chapter 6 Raleigh 81 -- Chapter 7 Raleigh, and Not Raleigh 104 -- Chapter 8 Raleigh, Breathing Again 133 -- Chapter 9 Washington: The Senate 165 -- Chapter 10 America, the Primaries: The Windup 190 -- Chapter 11 America, the Primaries: The Pitch 206 -- Chapter 12 America, the General Election: In the Starting Blocks 236 -- Chapter 13 America, the General: The Race 257 -- Chapter 14 Washington: The Hospital 287 -- Chapter 15 Home 335.