The Broken Road: George Wallace and a Daughter’s Journey to Reconciliation by Peggy Wallace KennedyMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
[I received a DIGITAL Advance Reader Copy of this book from #NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.]
This memoir by George Wallace's daughter covers an arc from an unaware child to an adult woman coming to grip a segregationist family legacy remembered shaped by these six words: "Segregation now! Segregation tomorrow! Segregation forever!" and other lines attributed to Wallace (some worse) recalled here. The picture I get is over that man's long life his views evolved while his views appeared actually irrelevant. I had the feeling he would have ascribed any viewpoint from segregationist to integrationist if it would have got him to be governor. This author's life is overtly tied to the right wing wise in American politics from a witness to a similar upswell a half century ago. She is a lucid and valuable primary source on the American political mind.
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