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A fascinating chronicle of one of my heroes. She led the way for all of us. -- Former Texas Governor Ann Richards
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"I picked up Indomitable Sarah and couldn't put it down. It's terrific. Sarah T. Hughes deserved a special book to be written about her and Darwin Payne has captured her drive, her smarts-her being, in a page-turning way that her page-turning life demanded."-Jim Lehrer
"If you want to know how awesome Sarah T. Hughes was, she passed a state income tax through the Texas House of Representatives in 1932, something no one has done before or since. Darwin Payne gives us a full account of her decades-long struggles against racism, sexism, poverty and injustice. We are lucky to have this splendid account of one of Texas's greatest freedom fighters."-Molly Ivins
Judge Sarah T. Hughes is best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John F. Kennedy was assassinated. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. She was a legislator, judge, political leader, and feminist who devoted her life to liberal causes. As a federal judge she presided over the three-judge panel that overturned Texas's abortion laws in a decision upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court in Roe v. Wade, a decision that has rocked American society and politics to this day. Indomitable Sarah is an energetic, well-researched biography that shows the many dimensions of this important figure in Texas' history as well as the nation's.
"A terrific saga of an extraordinary woman and of an era in Texas politics that no longer exists. Sarah T. Hughes would have been the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court had she been ten years younger."-Congressman Martin Frost
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