Granny D

Description for GRANNY D: YOU'RE NEVER TOO OLD TO RAISE A LITTLE HELL by Doris Haddock with Dennis Burke and a Foreword by Bill Moyers:

In February 2000, ninety-year-old Doris ?ǣGranny D?ǥ Haddock became a national heroine when she completed her 3,200-mile, fourteen-month walk from Los Angeles to Washington, D.C., to bring attention to the issue of campaign finance reform.

GRANNY D recalls and celebrates an exuberant life of love, activism, and adventure?Çöfrom one-woman feminist plays in the thirties, to stopping nuclear testing near an Eskimo fishing village in 1963, to her current crusade. Threaded throughout is the spirit of her beloved hometown in New Hampshire?ÇöThornton Wilder?ÇÖs inspiration for Grover?ÇÖs Corners in Our Town?Çöa quintessentially American center of New England pluck, Yankee ingenuity, and can-do attitude.

Told in Doris?ÇÖs vivid and unforgettable voice, GRANNY D will move and delight readers with its clarion message that one person can indeed make a difference.