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Book Review of The Proud and the Free

The Proud and the Free
The Proud and the Free
Author: Janet Dailey
Genres: Literature & Fiction, Romance
Book Type: Audio Cassette
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Abridged/4 cassettes/Approx 6 hours.

From a New York Times best-selling author comes a passionate love story set during the Cherokee Nation's tumultuous struggle for justice in the early 1830s. Temple Gordon, the daughter of an educated Cherokee leader, was raised on her mother's family plantation. She is fiercely devoted to the Cherokee traditions, while her lover, Blade Stuart, is a visionary committed to a new future for the tribe. Their romance and the survival of the Cherokee Nation itself are soon tested by government pressure to surrender tribal territory and move west. In nearly losing everything she loves most, Temple discovers an inner strength she never knew she had.