An influential legislator discusses her early childhood exposure to politics, her participation in her husband's career, her experiences as a mother to three prominent children, and her life since her husband's disappearance. 40,000 first printing. Tour.
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In 1973, Boggs became the first female member of Congress and in 1976, the first woman to chair a Democratic Party convention. When she ran for the House of Representatives seat left vacant by the death of her husband, Hale Boggs, Lady Bird Johnson asked her if she thought it was possible "to do the job without a wife." She went on to hold the seat for nine consecutive terms, representing the largely black district in New Orleans where she grew up. Boggs recounts raising three children (TV journalist Cokie Roberts is her daughter), her enduring warm relationships with her Southern relatives and friends and meeting the towering figures of our day. Her pleasing memoir, written with freelancer Hatch, recalls with innumerable amusing, perceptive anecdotes the New Orleans of her girlhood and the more than 40 years of politics she and her husband participated in, spanning the era of Huey Long to George Bush. Boggs sees herself not as a feminist but as "a bridge between old and new, liberals and conservatives, whites and blacks, men and women, Republicans and Democrats."
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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When Boggs decided to run for her husband's congressional seat after he disappeared in a small plane over Alaska, her friend Lady Bird Johnson wondered whether she could do the job without a wife. Representative Boggs proved that she could do the job extremely well without a wife, but her 30 years' experience behind the scenes helping her husband, Hale, by raising money, running campaigns, and managing his Capitol Hill office was an excellent apprenticeship for her own 18 years in Congress. Her memoirs describe in a familiar and upbeat style the contributions that both Boggses made to the country, Congress, and the Democratic party. Although she originally intended to serve only long enough to complete her husband's agenda, Boggs went on to establish her own legislative record, especially benefiting women and children during the early days of the feminist movement. While offering a warm and sometimes funny look at the ways congressional wives must balance family, political, and personal responsibilities, her book is also a valuable portrait of how women used their influence in those "pre-empowerment" days. Recommended for women's studies and nonscholarly political science collections.
Jill Ortner, SILS, SUNY at Buffalo
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Jill Ortner, SILS, SUNY at Buffalo
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc.
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This review is from: Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman (Library Binding)
Lindy Boggs could have written at least five or more books, or one for each administration in which she served; there is so much history in this volume and much interesting material was only briefly mentioned. I enjoyed her lively account and admired her spunk.
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This review is from: Washington Through a Purple Veil: Memoirs of a Southern Woman (Hardcover)
This memoir is a great account of the author's life up to 1994, and since then she has been ambassador to the Vatican and I hope she does a sequel. Her husband, Hale Boggs, was elected to House from Louisiana in 1940 and served till he was lost in an air crash in Alaska in 1972. Lindy ran for his seat the next year and won election and served till she voluntarily retired from Congress in 1990, ending her service on Jan 3, 1991. Her account of her public and family life is well-told and never boring. It is like a historical account of the political life of this country during the fifty years involved. This book is a winner, as far as memoirs of Congress goes. Another book in this genre, which I enjoyed, though it is of a different era, is: Washington Wife: Journal of Ellen Maury Slayden from 1897-1919, which I read on 21 Aug 1976.
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