Henrietta McCormick Hill

A Senator's Wife Remembers

From the Great Depression to the Great Society

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of New South Wales Press
• Seitenzahl: 252
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. September 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 499g
• ISBN-13: 9781603060561
• ISBN-10: 1603060561
• Artikelnr.: 48699856

Autorenporträt

Henrietta Fontaine McCormick met her future husband, Congressman (and later Senator) Joseph Lister Hill in 1926 and they married February 20. 1928. They had two children, Henrietta Fontaine Hill and Luther Lister Hill. She and her mother, Henrietta Fontaine McCormick, loved family genealogy, history, and stories, motivating her to write and self-publish her book The Family Skeleton in 1958, to keep the notes that would become A Senator's Wife Remembers, compiled by her daughter.