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WOW! Books       Memoir       Hardback December, 2004       368 Pages       $22.95 ISBN 0-9762058-0-7

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Cotton Field of Dreams: A Memoir

By Janis F. Kearney

Cotton Field of Dreams: a Memoir is an American story—in black and white; a poignant memoir by the former diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton who shares her journey from the cotton

Janis F. Kearney & Tony Blair during the author's UK tour to promote “Cotton Field of Dreams.”

fields of the Arkansas delta, to the West Wing of the White House. It is an American story featuring the pre-civil rights south where cotton was king and education was the carrot that stayed just out of reach for many blacks.

Cotton Field of Dreams, a lesson in southern and women’s history, paints a vivid picture of roles played out by the women, children and family in the Arkansas delta. It is about the hard lessons children of cotton sharecroppers learned from under-educated but wise parents whose greatest gift was their children’s permission to dream. This story memorializes James and

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Ethel Kearney who taught their 17 children that nothing was too far out of reach if they put their minds and hearts into it. Their story is about the miracle of the south, and the limitless vision, the unflinching faith, and daring dreams of a poor, black family on Varner Road.

Janis F. Kearney, a native of the southeast Arkansas delta, is a writer, lecturer and oral historian who served as personal diarist to President William Jefferson Clinton and was publisher of the award-winning Arkansas State Press Newspaper, formerly owned by civil rights legend Daisy Gatson Bates, of the 1957 Central High Crisis. Aside from touring to promote her new book, Cotton Field of Dreams, Janis also writes a political column, Politics Is Life and authors a newsletter, Writing Our World! Press.