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By Piper Jones Castillo
Published April 15, 2007
We talked with Janet Reno, the only woman to serve as U.S. Attorney General, by phone from her childhood home in Miami. Although the call with Reno, who has Parkinson's disease, was brief, it included peacocks calling in the background. What is on your nightstand? No Ordinary Times by Doris Kearns Goodwin. It's an excellent book on the Roosevelts. Do you have a genre you consider your favorite? I'm drawn to biographies first. When you think of the reading you did as a child, is there a book you consider a standout? Yes, absolutely. My mother gave it to me to read: Road to Xanadu by John Livingston Lowes. Piper Jones Castillo, Times staff writer
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