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Finding My Voice: A Personal History of the Silent Generation is a far-ranging and captivating memoir by Janet Taliaferro—who was never silent. Her engrossing personal story ranges from her first-hand recollections of WWII through the Korean Conflict, to Vietnam, Kennedy’s assassination, the Civil Rights Movement, the Women’s Movement, and beyond.
By virtue of her work in the political and public arena, Taliaferro found herself at remarkable crossroads and events time and again. At the same time, she recounts her personal life, both its triumphs and troubles. This memoir is an engaging, amusing, and fascinating account of a life well-lived.
“Appomattox no longer stands in the center of Washington Street in Alexandra, Virginia, removed along with the arrogant equestrian statues. Apparently, no one noticed the difference between the message of defeat by Appomattox, and the victorious stance of a mounted Robert E. Lee. I mourn the loss of the figure depicting the acceptance of defeat.
Sixty-eight years and twenty days divide the end of America’s Civil War and my birth. Now at ninety-two, my life has spanned a time when the country was never more united to these times when it is nearly as divided as it had been in those crucial eighteenth-century times.
I am part of the silent generation.”
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