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Granny D: Walking Across America in My 90th Year (Thorndike Senior Lifestyle)
Granny D Walking Across America in My 90th Year - Thorndike Senior Lifestyle Author:Doris Haddock, Dennis Burke "Doris Haddock is a true patriot, and our nation has been blessed by her remarkable life." - Jimmy Carter On February 29,2000, ninety-year-old Doris Haddock completed a fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to the steps of the Capitol in Washington, D.C. undertaken to draw attention to the need for national campaign finance reform. On the journe... more »y, Doris kept a diary tracking the progress of her walk and recalling events in her life, people she met along the way, and the insights they had given her. Writer and activist Dennis Burke, who helped Doris through the desert of the Southwest, has crafted her road journals into a celebration of an exuberant life of love, activism and adventure.« less