{"title":"Jeffrey Buckner Ford","description":"\u003cp\u003eJEFFREY BUCKNER FORD was an American actor, writer, and voice-over artist who appeared in more than twenty feature films, including The Firm, The Client, and Blue Like Jazz, and in hundreds of television and radio commercials. He was the author of the memoir \u003cem\u003eRiver of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFord was a regular on the CBS series Christy and had roles on In the Heat of the Night, I'll Fly Away, and Walker Texas Ranger, among others. He also managed Tennessee Ernie Ford Enterprises and worked as a multimedia writer and producer.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen not writing, Ford drew on his family history as the eldest son of Country Music Hall of Fame member Tennessee Ernie Ford. That inheritance shaped \u003cem\u003eRiver of No Return\u003c\/em\u003e directly.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFord lived in Nashville, Tennessee, and died there at age 76.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJeffrey Buckner Ford’s books are published by Cumberland House Publishing, an imprint of Turner Publishing.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBrowse more: \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/books-new-releases\"\u003eNew Releases\u003c\/a\u003e · \u003ca href=\"\/collections\/award-winning-books\"\u003eAward-Winning Books\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"river-of-no-return","title":"River of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved","description":"In 1942 Ernest Jennings Ford married nineteen-year-old Betty Jean Heminger, whom he had met at Victorville Army Air Base in California. \u003ci\u003eRiver of No Return: Tennessee Ernie Ford and the Woman He Loved\u003c\/i\u003e is the recounting of their life together, of Ernie's spectacular success as an entertainer, of their growing spiral of self-destruction as his career flourished, and of their two sons' despair as they watched the light slowly fade from their parents' eyes and the joy vanish from their lives. For Betty it was vodka, valium, and tranquilizers. For Ernie, it was beer for breakfast, Cutty for lunch at the club, and whatever later in the day. In \u003ci\u003eRiver of No Return,\u003c\/i\u003e their son Jeffery remembers when his family's joy of being together was infectious, when the promise of every day and the thrill of being at the center of the spotlight was rapturous. It was a time when the name Ernie Ford was in the air and his fame worldwide.\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c!-- amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003csmall\u003eWe earn a commission for purchases made through the following links.\u003c\/small\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/1581826532\/ref=nosim?tag=tpcecomm-20\" rel=\"sponsored nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Amazon\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/amazon-buylink --\u003e\u003c!-- bookshop-buylink --\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/bookshop.org\/book\/9781581826531\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003eshop for this title at Bookshop.org\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c!-- \/bookshop-buylink --\u003e","brand":"Jeffrey Buckner Ford","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":43236422058200,"sku":"9781581826531","price":24.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0563\/7786\/8475\/files\/9781581826531_FChigh_mockup_v2_1738744422_f61cf5e2-4b73-4bb0-8b61-fd33803086a3.jpg?v=1791025559"}],"url":"https:\/\/turnerpublishing.com\/collections\/author-jeffrey-buckner-ford.oembed","provider":"Turner Publishing","version":"1.0","type":"link"}