Indomitable Sarah The Life of Judge Sarah T. Hughes

Payne, Darwin

ISBN 10: 0870744879 / ISBN 13: 9780870744877

Published by SMU Press, Dallas, 2004

Signed and inscribed by author on half title page. First edition, first printing. Hard cover published by SMU Press in 2004. Light blue covers with gilt lettering on spine. Book and dust jacket are in very good condition. Large 8vo, 467 pages, 1.9 lb.; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; 467 pages; Signed by Author. Seller Inventory # MSP12489

Synopsis:

Judge Sarah T. Hughes is perhaps best remembered as the woman who swore in Lyndon Johnson as president aboard Air Force One on November 22, 1963, after President John Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. But long before then, she had been making headlines as the foremost woman Democrat in Texas. In 1935, over the protests of a local senator who said she should be home washing dishes, Sarah T. Hughes was appointed the first woman district judge in Texas. She was nominated for vice president of the United States at the 1952 Democratic National Convention, and in 1961 she was nominated by President John F. Kennedy as a federal district judge. A feminist who devoted her life to liberal causes, she presided over the three-judge panel and wrote the opinion that overturned Texas’s abortion laws in 1970 in Roe v. Wade, a decision upheld by the U.S. Supreme Court, a decision that has rocked American society and politics to this day.

About the Author: DARWIN PAYNE, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, has published biographies of Frederick Lewis Allen and Owen Wister as well as many other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American Civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a biography of Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and former mayor of Dallas.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Indomitable Sarah The Life of Judge Sarah T....
Publisher: SMU Press, Dallas
Publication Date: 2004
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Signed: Signed by Author(s)
Edition: First Edition; First Printing.