A Senator's Wife Remembers: From the Great Depression to the Great Society

by Henrietta McCormick Hill, Henrietta Hill Hubbard (Foreword by)

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781603060561
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	09/01/2010
Pages:	252
Product dimensions:	6.10(w) x 9.10(h) x 1.00(d)

About the Author

HENRIETTA FONTAINE MCCORMICK HILL (1904-1986) 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 and to keep the notes that would become A Senator's Wife Remembers, compiled by her daughter.

HENRIETTA FONTAINE MCCORMICK HILL (1904-1986) 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 and to keep the notes that would become A Senator's Wife Remembers, compiled by her daughter.

Editorial Reviews

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

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

A snapshot in time as well as a view into the lives of good people.

The Washington Times

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. — Don Noble, First Draft

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. — Michael Thomason, Mobile Press-Register

A snapshot in time as well as a view into the lives of good people. — The Washington Times

How different was Washington, DC in the 1930s? What was it like for an ordinary young woman from Eufaula who married into the whirlwind social life and critical days of public service in the Great Depression and the war that followed? The long-lost memoirs of one of the great US Senators from Alabama in the 20th century have some fascinating stories. [Mrs. Hill’s] memoirs make a window into Alabama and America in the early and middle parts of the 20th century. — Dave “Doc” Kirby, WTBF-AM/FM

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