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"There's a cancer, and it's killing our democracy. A poor man has to sell his soul to get elected. I cry for this country." On February 29, 2000, ninety-year-ol

The life of Doris Haddock, known to millions as "Granny D," from her young adulthood in Boston during the Great Depression to her last decade as a galvanizing f

Shortlisted for the Booker Prize The real-life Guinness heiress offers an inside look at the lives of eccentric aristocrats in this “masterful . . . macabre f

The life of Doris Haddock, known to millions as "Granny D," from her young adulthood in Boston during the Great Depression to her last decade as a galvanizing f

Winner of the 2014 National Outdoor Book Awards for History/Biography Emma Gatewood told her family she was going on a walk and left her small Ohio hometown wit