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Book Launch Reading – Chicago

  • Women & Children First 5233 North Clark Street Chicago, IL, 60640 United States (map)
 

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Rita Dragonette in conversation with Mary Ann Childers – The Fourteenth of September

On September 14, 1969, Private First Class Judy Talton celebrates her nineteenth birthday by secretly joining the campus anti-Vietnam War movement. In doing so, she jeopardizes both the army scholarship that will secure her future and her relationship with her military family.  The Fourteenth of September portrays a pivotal time at the peak of the Vietnam War through the perspective of a young woman, tracing her path of self-discovery and a coming of conscience.
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