A Senator's Wife Remembers: From the Great Depression to the Great SocietyThe 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. |
Contents
Foreword | |
Introduction 15 | |
Part One19281941 | |
Days of Infamy 97 | |
The Lucky USS Alabama 121 | |
The War Years 128 | |
Part Three194319 50 | |
Part Four19 5119 59 | |
Inauguration Blizzard 223 | |
A Mans Home Is His Castle 233 | |
Lord Lister 239 | |
Common terms and phrases
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