Vernon can read! . - Book Shelf - book review
Ebony, Jan, 2002
In the summer of 1955, when he was home for vacation from DePauw University, college student Vernon Jordan took a job in his hometown of Atlanta as the driver for a retired White banker. When he was not squiring the old man around town, Jordan whiled away the hours reading books, much to the amazement of his boss. "Vernon can read!" the man exclaimed in astonishment to his relatives one day.
It is from that anecdote that civil rights activist, business leader and presidential confidant Vernon E. Jordan, Jr. took the title of his autobiography, Vernon Can Read! A Memoir (PublicAffairs Books, $26).
Jordan's is an inspirational life story. Currently a senior managing director of the high-powered Wall Street investment firm of Lazard Freres & Co., Jordan's life and career follow the contours of some of the most monumental news events and sweeping changes in American history. Written with New York Law School professor Annette Gordon-Reed, author of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings: An American Controversy, Vernon Can Read! charts the rise of this charismatic and influential leader from his Atlanta roots to the top of America's legal, corporate and political worlds.
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