Emily janice card biography

Emily Janice Card.
Emily Janice Card's plays including biography, theatres, agent, synopses, cast sizes, production and published dates.
Emily Watts Card (born May 8, 1942) is an American political scientist, lawyer, educator, author, and expert in women's consumer credit and finance.

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Emily Card

American political scientist (born 1942)

Emily Watts Card (born May 8, 1942) is an American political scientist, lawyer, educator, author, and expert in women's consumer credit and finance. As a legislative fellow under Republican Senator Bill Brock of Tennessee, Card gathered evidence, drafted legislation, and coordinated support for the Equal Credit Opportunity Act of 1974.^[1]

Family and education

Born Emily Ann Watts on May 8, 1942, to Ray Dean Watts and Anne America Dempsey.^[2] Card graduated from Chattanooga High School in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1960.^[3] She earned a B.A. from Newcomb College in 1963 and an M.A. in Political Science from Tulane University in 1966.^[4] Card completed a Ph.D. in Political Science at Columbia University in 1972 with a dissertation titled The Politics of Underdevelopment; from Voluntary Associations to Party Auxiliaries in Ghana.^[5] Card went on to earn an M.P.A. from the Harvard Kennedy School in 1981 and holds a J.D. from the University of California Los Angel

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Emily Rankin

Before We Were Yours
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4.40 avg rating — 667,304 ratings — published 2017 — 115 editions

The Kiss of Deception (The Remnant Chronicles, #1)
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3.92 avg rating — 151,660 ratings — published 2014 — 48 editions

The Most Fun We Ever Had
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3.91 avg rating — 118,335 ratings — published 2019 — 51 editions

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill
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3.80 avg rating — 106,838 ratings — published 2019 — 35 editions

The Heart of Betrayal (The Remnant Chronicles, #2)
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4.17 avg rating — 87,971 ratings — published 2015 — 41 editions

Carve the Mark (Carve the Mark, #1)
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3.78 avg rating — 93,472 ratings — published 2017 — 101 editions

All Adults Here
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3.57 avg rating — 85,581 ratings — published 2020 — 34 editions

The Beauty of Darkness (The Remnant Chronicles, #3)
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4.16 avg rating — 65,776 ratings — published 2016 — 23 editions

Spells for Forgetting
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3.87 avg rating

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The Last King of Scotland

January 9, 2025

The Last King of Scotland: Here it is, in Chapter 26, the crux of the novel's drama and moral conflict: Idi Amin said Hitler was right to burn Jews alive with gas. When Nicholas Garrigan, the tale's narrator, hears Willie Brandt, the West German Chancelor, call this statement “an expression of mental derangement,” Nicholas reflects, “I agreed with him, obviously, and yet there I was in the middle of it. My life had already fallen into a pattern that concentrated on Amin. The closer I got to him, the fewer my illusions about him – and still I stayed, more fascinated than frightened.”

Why did Nicholas Garrigan stay? Why didn't he board the first plane and leave Uganda? Giles Foden's The Last King of Scotland tells the tale. And a shocking tale it is, a remarkable first novel by an English author who spent his youth in Africa.

Published in 1998, The Last King of Scotland focuses on documented history within Uganda in the 1970s and features Idi Amin, “President for Life,” as a central character. In this way, the work shares much in