King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village

King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village - Paperback

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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village
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King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village - Paperback

King Peggy: An American Secretary, Her Royal Destiny, and the Inspiring Story of How She Changed an African Village - Paperback

by Peggielene Bartels , Eleanor Herman
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by Peggielene Bartels (Author), Eleanor Herman (Author)

The charming real-life fairy tale of an American secretary who discovers she has been chosen king of an impoverished fishing village on the west coast of Africa.
King Peggy chronicles the astonishing journey of American secretary, Peggielene Bartels, who suddenly finds herself king to a town of 7,000 people on Ghana's central coast, half a world away. Upon arriving for her crowning ceremony in beautiful Otuam, she discovers the dire reality: there's no running water, no doctor, no high school, and many of the village elders are stealing the town's funds. To make matters worse, her uncle (the late king) sits in a morgue awaiting a proper funeral in the royal palace, which is in ruins. Peggy's first two years as king of Otuam unfold in a way that is stranger than fiction. In the end, a deeply traditional African town is uplifted by the ambitions of its decidedly modern female king, and Peggy is herself transformed, from an ordinary secretary to the heart and hope of her community.

Author Biography

Peggielene Bartels was born in Ghana in 1953 and moved to Washington, DC, in her early twenties to work at Ghana's embassy. She became an American in 1997. In 2008, she was chosen to be king of Otuam, a Ghanaian village of 7,000 people.

Eleanor Herman is the author of three books of women's history, including The New York Times bestseller Sex with Kings. Her profile of Peggy was a cover story for The Washington Post Magazine.
Number of Pages: 368
Dimensions: 0.74 x 8.24 x 5.3 IN
Publication Date: February 12, 2013
ISBN9780307742810
Author Peggielene Bartels , Eleanor Herman
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
GenreBiography and History
FormatPaperback
PublishedFebruary 2013
LanguageENG- English
Pages368
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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About Eleanor Herman

Eleanor Herman is the New York Times-bestselling author of Sex with Kings and Sex with the Queen, non-fiction works on the love lives of European royals through the centuries. She also wrote Mistress of the Vatican, the biography of a woman who ran the Catholic Church in the seventeenth century for her reputed lover, Pope Innocent; and King Peggy, the true story of a Washington, DC, secretary who became a king of Ghana. In 2015 Herman published her first young adult novel. Legacy of Kings is the first of four books on the adventures of Alexander the Great at age sixteen. It has been optioned by the WB network for a TV series. Herman has made television appearances sharing her historical expertise on National Geographic, the History Channel, and the American Heroes Channel. She lives in McLean, Virginia, with her husband, four rescue cats, and a dog.

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