Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story

Abandoned by his father and raised by his mother during the Depression, Jimmy Dean learned early the values of hard work and faith. But no one could have imagined how far those values-and the saving grace of country music-would take the poor young man from Plainview, Texas. Now, Jimmy Dean and his wife, Donna, chronicle his amazing rise as a country singer and then as a phenomenal business success with the Jimmy Dean Meat Company.Jimmy Dean and Donna Meade Dean is the author of 'Thirty Years of Sausage, Fifty Years of Ham: Jimmy Dean's Own Story', published 2005 under ISBN 9780786272075 and ISBN 0786272074.