A Senator's Wife Remembers
From the Great Depression to the Great Society
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Pages: 252
Trim size: 6.000in x 9.000in
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Hardcover
Pub Date: 09/01/2010
ISBN: 9-781-6030-6056-1
List Price: $27.95
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NewSouth BooksRelated Subjects
A Senator's Wife Remembers
From the Great Depression to the Great Society
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The remembrances of Henrietta McCormick Hill, compiled by her daughter Henrietta Hill Hubbard, give insight into the political career of Alabama senator Joseph Lister Hill, and into the courtship, marriage, and later life of the couple. Among topics covered are Senator Hill's work for health legislation, including the Hill-Burton and Hill-Harris Acts, and the couple's reaction to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. Told through personal stories and vignettes, A Senator's Wife Remembers is a unique and welcoming political memoir.
A snapshot in time as well as a view into the lives of good people.
—The Washington Times
A Senator's Wife Remembers will be read with interest by students of gender studies, as well as by those of us who simply enjoy reading a well-written diary-based volume ... It is an honest and clearly stated view of the world Henrietta Hubbard lived in. Anyone interested in Alabama and American political life or in the role women played in it in the early to mid-twentieth century should certainly read this enjoyable volume.
—Mobile Press-Register
Within her circumscribed world as a senator’s wife, Henrietta Hill writes honestly, it seems, of what she knew about and what she was able to see.
—First Draft
