Heart in the right place : a memoir / by Carolyn Jourdan.

Carolyn Jourdan left her beloved Tennessee hometown for a career in Washington, D.C. For twenty years she worked with the country's most powerful people. A successful attorney, she was smart and ambitious, and she believed her work made a difference. So when her father asked her to come home an...

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Main Author: Jourdan, Carolyn, 1955-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Chapel Hill, N.C. : Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill, 2008, ©2007.
Edition:First paperback edition
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