Madison Park: a place of hope

✍ Scribed by Isaacson, Walter;Motley, Eric Lamar

• Book ID: 100603057
• Publisher: Zondervan
• Year: 2017
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 410 KB
• Category: Fiction
• City: Alabama--Montgomery., Montgomery (Ala.),Montgomery (Ala), United States.
• ISBN: 0310349664

✦ Synopsis

A former special assistant to President George W. Bush chronicles his coming of age in a small Alabama community founded by freed slaves, where he learned valuable lessons about helping others, embracing faith, and fighting racial injustice.;The Motley boy -- Madison Park -- A proud black community -- My Motley heritage -- Everything rounded out -- Years in training -- Not my only parents -- Rabbits volume Turtles -- The D.U.K. -- Shave and a haircut -- That old-time religion -- The best "hind-catcher" in the neighborhood -- The music that would change my life -- Three queens: Rosebud, Mama, and Mayes -- The book of knowledge -- Blessed interventions -- 1,002 uses for a pie pan -- Keeping it real for me -- Steve Urkel and Boys State -- Evolution -- Beyond Madison Park, but still a part of it -- Remember, we're still in Alabama -- There's a part for every one of us to play -- Scotland -- The limits of knowledge, the unlimited nature of friendship -- "Stopping by woods on a snowy evening" -- "If you're not ready now" -- From the White House to Foggy Bottom -- "Barbara Ann" -- Paid in full -- Wherever I go.

✦ Subjects

Alabama -- Montgomery