{"product_id":"9781469112893","title":"Donald: A Family History and Memoirs of a Journalist and Professor","description":"\u003cp\u003eDONALDS WORLD  leads on a young boys  trip to the top of the tallest building \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e between San Francisco and Los Angeles during the 1930s   When he returned\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehome he climbed a 60-feet  tree in his back yard to see from a distance where\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehe had been.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWho is this boy?  The answer comes in chapter 2 -- from birth to  his mothers \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecommitment to a state insane asylum. Thirty years would pass before she is\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ereleased under his care and gardianship.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eChapter 3  explores the family tree and  adventures by  those who made the \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOklahoma land rush of 1888 and their departure later because of crop failure.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIt took Donalds great great grandfather 65 days in all kinds of weather to return\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eto Tennesee  from Oklahoma. One can take the same trip today in less than 100\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ehours!\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMrs. C. Jackson arrives on the scene in Chapter 4 to take care of Donald and his\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eolder brother, Stanley. Donald didnt  know until  she died many years later that her  middle name was Charity. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe headline for Chapter 6  is The White Avenue Gang.  Donald recalls being\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eonly a  bystander when the rich kid was tied to a church tree on White Avenue\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eand one of his captures rode the boys red and white motor-bike around the\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eblock. He and his brother looked like the Balkan who assassinated Archduke\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFerdinand to start World War I.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eElsewere the book involves Donalds school days,  summer work in the Sierra                                              \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e before joining the Navy and  being saved  by bombs that crushed two Japanese\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecities.  He cast  his first vote for Harry Truman. After that his presidential votes \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ewent only to Republicans.  During college Marcia and Don where married\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ebefore their sophomore year.  After graduation Don joined UP and  34 year\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ecareer followed by 10 years as a journalism professor  at Oklahoma State\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eUniversity. He retired in 1994 and now lives in Tulsa, Oklahoma.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e7543 S. 70th East Ave, Tulsa, Ok 74133 918 494-3634 E-mail dreed@aol.com\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Xlibris Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47180612534512,"sku":"9781469112893","price":9.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781469112893_p0.jpg?v=1763698128","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781469112893","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}