[.ca] Tammy Wynette (ISBN 0399145982)

i think its great. get off her back!:
j, tell GG to call me. scotty 256-495-3514 ps tell her in private thnx

THIS IS THE TRUTH!!:
Believe it or not, what Jackie Daly wrote is nothing but the truth. George Richey did not love her mother the way he claims he did. Tammy's daughters are her blood. George Richey was the 5th in a long line of husbands who was only a stepfather to the girls if he was even that. God Bless Tammy and her daughters.

Sad Telling But People Don't Want to Know the Truth:
I have always been a Tammy Wynette fan. Three months after Tammy's passing George RIchey marries a "Dallas Cowboy Cheerleader"? So much for the grieving widower. Tammy's death was shrouded in mystery and no one will ever know for certain what happened. But even Loretta Lynn states in her new autobiography "Still Woman Enough" that she thinks its sad that Tammy never found true love in real life. Tammy was fragile, vulnerable and naive. Its obvious she let George Richey use her and milk her until she could take no more. I do not blame her daughters for wanting to know the truth. The sad thing is that people don't want to know the truth or the truth to be told. If my mother had died under such circumstances I would want to know the truth too. This book is a must read...Jackie truly cuts to the chase and George RIchey should be ashamed to show his face anywhere. Its obvious he never loved Tammy the way he said he did.

Give Jackie a break.....:
After reading all the customer reviews concerning this book(most of them very negative) I decided to purchase this book and form my own opinion. This book is about a daughter who lost her mother in death, a death that obviously came as a surprise to the entire family, including Tammy's husband, George Richey. Understandably, at least to me, her daughter, Jackie, wanted to know exactly what the cause of her mother's death was. Is that so unreasonable? It's my understanding from reading the book that the doctor who diagnosed her cause of death did so over the telephone without ever even examining the body. This was apparently "good enough" for Tammy's husband, but her daughter wanted a more realistic explanation. George Richey refused to help resolve this very troubling situation, having the belief that Tammy's dead and what does it really matter how she died--nothing is going to bring her back. That (understandably) wasn't good enough for Jackie, so she and her sisters had no choice but to sue Mr. Richey in an effort to find the truth as to what the cause of their mother's death really was. Despite claims by others, I don't view Jackie as a gold digger trying to cash in on the fame of her mother. She has every right to know what happened to her mother and why. If Mr. Richey would have simply cooperated, this book need never have been written. The book is a sad story about a family that has been torn apart by the tragic death of someone they all loved. The fact that Tammy Wynette was a country superstar is the only reason the public is interested in the first place. If this same situation had happened with a non-celeberty family, the same questions would have been asked and the outcome would most likely have been the same. So I say, give Jackie a break. The woman is doing the best she can to try and deal with the death of her beloved mother. Let her grieve in her own way and don't be so judgemental. My heart goes out to her.

A poignant tale of a celebrity mother/daughter relationship:
I think the book brings out the important point that no mother/daughter relationship is perfect. Jackie could no more forsee what an ungrateful wretch George Richey is than her mother could. And it's obvious that Tammy wouldn't have listened anyway. This is the story of a daughter who has come to understand her mother's love and her struggles. It's about the hard choice mothers face when they have to balance being sole provider for their children while providing for their emotional needs as well, and coping with their own ambitions in their career. It's not an easy thing. I admire Jackie's portrayal of her celebrity mother in a loving and honest way...