From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America's Future Booker Charles
Kentucky state representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to a political career forging new alliances among forgotten…
Specifikacia From the Hood to the Holler: A Story of Separate Worlds, Shared Dreams, and the Fight for America's Future Booker Charles
Kentucky state representative Charles Booker tells the improbable story of his journey from one of the poorest neighborhoods in the country to a political career forging new alliances among forgotten communities across the New South and beyond.Charles Booker grew up in the largely segregated West End of Louisville, living in one of the poorest neighborhood in Kentucky. Faith was everything in his large and loving family, but material comforts were scarce. Heat and water were often shut off, and his mother often went hungry so her son could eat. Even after he graduated from law school, Booker rationed the insulin he took for his diabetes. Determined to build a world in which poverty and racism would not plague future generations, he charted his own course into Kentucky politics, a world dominated by Mitch McConnell's formidable Republican establishment.In