My Rise to the Stars: How a Sharecropper's Daughter Became an Army General by Clara Adams - Ender

Paperback, 299 pages

A dramatic, gripping, and wholly inspirational memoir of an African-American female's journey from farm worker in the tobacco fields of North Carolina to the Pentagon as an Army general. It's a story of a girl turned woman who refused to be bound by the distinctions between men's work and women's work and traveled her own road to greatness as a military officer and nurse.