Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This - Rilegato

Allen, Carol

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1589800486 ISBN 13: 9781589800489

Casa editrice: Pelican Pub Co Inc, 2002

Riassunto

Traces the life of a Creole woman who defied conventions to become a successful restaurateur, a patron of the arts, and a community leader in New Orleans, highlighting how her inner strength has helped her through difficult times.

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Dalla seconda/terza di copertina:

Leah Chase thinks she's like everybody else. She's not. She doesn't think the things she does are out of the ordinary. They are. She is an ordinary person who has struggled quietly and persistently for years, believing in herself and her fellow human beings, with faith that she can improve her world.

The story of Leah Chase is the story of a black Creole girl raised in Madisonville, Louisiana, who defied the accepted conventions for women at the time and grew into a woman to be reckoned with. In her roles at the helm of the Dooky Chase Restaurant (one of the most famous Creole restaurants in the country), as a nationally respected patron of the arts, and as a community and civic leader, she has grown to the level of folk hero in both the black and white communities of New Orleans. Leah Chase is a living legend far beyond the boundaries of the city.

Leah Chase is a woman who speaks her mind. Her tremendous personal strength and deep religious faith have carried her through the sudden loss of her daughter, a bombing during the Civil Rights era, and boycotts, and have helped keep the peace in her marriage. Told in part in her own words, and through the reflections of others, Leah Chase: Listen, I Say Like This shares the events that have shaped the life of this woman and how she has, in turn, shaped the life of her community. Reading her story inspires one to think, "If she can do it, maybe I can too."

Chase biographer Carol Allen started her career as an educator and school administrator in public schools in Louisiana and Nebraska, and as a university professor in South Carolina. She founded and, for six years, directed the Paris Writer's Workshop, and organized the international conference, Women on the Move. She is the author of a book of children's poetry and has edited a collection of essays by women on living abroad. Ms. Allen divides her time between Provence and Paris, France, and New Orleans, Louisiana.

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She has always done what she had to do: Leah Lange Chase has managed the often-conflicting roles of wife, mother, businesswoman, and celebrity long before most women worried about juggling the delicate balance of their personal and professional lives. She has testified before the subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee of the U.S. House of Representatives on behalf of the National Endowment for the Arts, she has managed boxers, and she has fed everybody from Venus and Serena Williams to Cicely Tyson, all while working ten- to twelve-hour days and raising a large family. Leah Chase's story will grip you with tales of the strength, faith, and hard work with which this ordinary woman has succeeded in spite of the odds against her. Reading her story makes one think, "If she can do it, maybe I can too."

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• Editore: Pelican Pub Co Inc
• Data di pubblicazione: 2002
• ISBN 10: 1589800486
• ISBN 13: 9781589800489
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 176