The Rough Side of the Mountain: Keisha Lance Bottoms

A Memoir Keisha Lance Bottoms Non-Fiction Hardcover BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY/African American & Black 288 pages 16-page color photo insert 9 in H | 6 in W | 0.9 in T | 1 lb Wt A poignant and inspiring memoir from the former mayor of Atlanta about her modest, hardscrabble upbringing, and fully appreciating the selfless, loving, fierce, and altogether Southern-twinged lessons her family taught her. Long before Keisha Lance Bottoms rose to prominence in politics, she was a daddy’s girl from the west side of Atlanta—the baby of her family, who did well in school, though she talked too much in class; an outgoing kid who dreamed of growing up to be elegant and charismatic like her parents, cool like her older siblings and big cousins, and the pride of her very large Southern family. After law school, Bottoms worked as an attorney, served as a judge, and was elected to City Council and the mayorship, where she garnered national attention for her lead