Vivian Cash recounts life, love with Johnny

From: Winnipeg Free Press | Date: September 30, 2007| Author: Anonymous | Copyright information

I Walked The Line

My Life with Johnny

By Vivian Cash with Ann Sharpsteen

Scribner, 326 pages, $32

Reviewed by Brenlee Carrington

AFTER more than 50 years of silence, and after both their deaths, country music legend Johnny Cash and his first wife have finally told the story of their life together.

Vivian Cash, née Liberto, was the indisputable love of Arkansas-born Johnny's early years, beginning when he was 19 and she was still a high school seni...

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