On Her Own Ground: The Life and Times of Madam C. J. Walker » (Reprint)

A'Lelia Bundles, an award-winning network television news producer and former ABC News Washington deputy bureau chief, is director of talent development for ABC News. She is the author of numerous essays, articles, and encyclopedia entries about her great-great-grandmother, Madam C.J. Walker, and a young-adult biography, Madam C.J. Walker: Entrepreneur, which won an American Book Award. She lives in Alexandria, Virginia. Visit her Web site at www.madamcjwalker.com.

Madam C. J. Walker was orphaned at seven, married at fourteen and widowed at twenty. With the discovery of a revolutionary hair care formula for black women, everything changed. Walker built a beauty product empire, amassing wealth unprecedented among black women.

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The challenge of reconstructing a life of both personal and historical significance poses no apparent constraints for Bundles. She has mastered the tensions organic to such a process of recovery, analysis and truth-telling. As a result, On Her Own Ground is not an honorific narrative but rather a life convincingly told with the biographer's unwavering commitment to accuracy.