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Alone atop the Hill: The Autobiography of Alice Dunnigan, Pioneer of the National Black Press
In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper’s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation’s capitol and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With
Alone atop the Hill
, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan’s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historic
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Hardcover
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240 pages
Published
February 15th 2015
by University of Georgia Press
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Even for an autobiography, this was a bit dry. The timeline was also a bit wonky in places. Dunnigan's story is amazing and real, but this wasn't the most enjoyable read.
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