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RIVER OF NO RETURN IBD

CUMBERLAND HOUSE PUBLISHING
05 / 2008
9781581826531
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Sinopsis

In 1942 Ernest Jennings Ford married nineteen-year-old Betty Jean Heminger, whom he had met at Victorville Army Air Base in California.áRiver of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Lovedáis the recounting of their life together, of ErnieâÇÖs spectacular success as an entertainer, of their growing spiral of self-destruction as his career flourished, and of their two sonsâÇÖ despair as they watched the light slowly fade from their parentsâÇÖ eyes and the joy vanish from their lives. For Betty it was vodka, valium, and tranquilizers. For Ernie, it was beer for breakfast, Cutty for lunch at the club, and whatever later in the day. InáRiver of No Return,átheir son Jeffery remembers when his familyâÇÖs joy of being together was infectious, when the promise of every day and the thrill of being at the center of the spotlight was rapturous. It was a time when the name Ernie Ford was in the air and his fame worldwide.

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