A Generous Life: W. James Samford, Jr. - Wayne Greenhaw
Biography
ISBN 13: 978-1-57966-083-3
ISBN 10: 1-57966-083-5
Trade cloth
6" x 9"
341 pp.
$29.95
W. James Samford, Jr. was a man devoted to public service, private philanthropy, and the joys of deep friendship and family connection. His robust energy for living life to the fullest took him from his storied Alabama roots to the upper branches of Washington society and ultimately back again—to the campus of his beloved Auburn University, where he served as president pro tem on the Board of Trustees.
He took on all tasks with equal verve, whether he was laboring in the halls of the FDIC or searching Montgomery County’s back roads for the tastiest barbeque. Here, his legacy is recounted by his family, his friends, and his associates—all of whom remember him with love, respect, and humor in stories that evoke the twinkle always evident in his eye.
The foundation of Jimmy Samford’s life was generosity, and in this portrait of the man from award-winning author Wayne Greenhaw, it becomes evident that generosity is also his legacy.
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ABOUT WAYNE GREENHAW
WAYNE GREENHAW is the 2006 recipient of the Harper Lee Award for Alabam'’s Distinguished Writer, given annually at Monroeville’s Alabama Writers' Symposium.
In 2005, he received the Clarence Cason Award for Nonfiction, given annually by the University of Alabama’s College of Communication.
An award-winning journalist and former Nieman Fellow at Harvard, Greenhaw's work has appeared in the New York Times, the Miami Herald, Reader’s Digest, Music City News, and many others.
He is the author of more than seventeen books, the most recent of which is The Thunder of Angels: The Montgomery Bus Boycott and the People Who Broke the Back of Jim Crow (co-authored with Donnie Williams). He divides his time between Montgomery, Alabama, and San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.