Get A Muzzle On Her! - Jamieson, M. Carol

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Résumé :
On September 14, 1962, twenty-year-old Carol Jamieson's world shattered. In an instant-a car crash on a darkened road-and her young husband was gone, leaving her alone with their one-year-old son, Sean, and a future no one that age is prepared to face. She refused the easy path offered by well-meaning friends including those who encouraged her to take government assistance...

Biographie:
she would not be pitied, she would not be rescued, and she would not surrender her independence. Instead, she carved out an extraordinary life from the wreckage. Born in wartime Toronto and raised in a household plagued by alcohol, physical and mental abuse, Carol learned early to rely on her own fierce mind. Books, music, and ambition became her lifelines. When tragedy obliterated the first safe harbour she had ever known, she rebuilt-brick by brick-through sheer force of will. She rose first in media and public relations, shaping stories and successes for CTV, the Miss Canada and Miss Teenage Pageants and later the CBC. She organized Stompin' Tom Connors' televised wedding and arranged his remarkable singing audience with Queen Elizabeth II. But it was in politics-Canada's rough-and-tumble, back-room, late-night version of it-where Carol's voice became impossible to ignore. She campaigned, strategized, fundraised, and problem-solved for candidates across the Progressive Conservative landscape, from municipal hopefuls to premiers and prime ministers. Some sought her counsel eagerly...

Sommaire:
On September 14, 1962, twenty-year-old Carol Jamieson's world shattered. In an instant-a car crash on a darkened road-and her young husband was gone, leaving her alone with their one-year-old son, Sean, and a future no one that age is prepared to face. She refused the easy path offered by well-meaning friends including those who encouraged her to take government assistance...