She wrote about her parents, onetime sharecroppers; about a tough, tumultuous childhood; about her years in the Air Force and her rape by a colleague who wound up in military prison; and about her seesawing political evolution, evidence of idealism tempered by experience.
A century ago America was in the throes of a tumultuous debate about immigration.
Donald Trump continues to go where no recent candidate for president has gone before, plunging the Republican Party - and the nation - into another round in the tumultuous debate about immigration, national identity, terrorism and the limits of tolerance.
He reflected often about his own tumultuous life, with monologues about a domestic quarrel in which he shot his wife's car, the death of his pet monkeys and a near-fatal heart attack, which ended with: "I woke up in the ambulance, right?
Before I left, Ondi flew to New York to film me talking about my tumultuous summer and my feelings about going back to Kalu Yala.
The title track is about tumultuous girlhood.
And her new piece, "Rupture," bursts with unruly, tumultuous life for about its first two-thirds.
The Supreme Court ruling in the Citizens United case ranks with the woeful economy, the Tea Party and other forces that brought about tumultuous change in the recent elections.
Although this book has its share of barbs about tumultuous Thai politics (a k a "the silly unrest in the capital"), it is escapist enough to avoid any brutal historical events.
In the two and a half years since the popular protests that overthrew the Mubarak regime, the Administration has followed a pattern: express concern about tumultuous events, then accept their outcome as a fait accompli and make the best of the new status quo, without a perceptible effort to use whatever influence the U.S. still has over the main actors in Egypt's political drama.
