Dr. Bettye Kearse, the author of The Other Madisons is a retired pediatrician who recently published her book The Other Madisons, which is a tale that Bettye Kearse was literally born to tell. As she journeys in search of her deepest, most painful family roots, she unfurls an intensely personal tale that is also a quintessentially American story. Confronting colonialism and cruelty, power and its abuse, the silencing of slaves and the fraught complexity of intertwined nations and individual lives, The Other Madisons crafts a new kind of record, one that illuminates the power of a woman taking charge of her own truth.
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