Gates philomene a (1 Ergebnisse)

Hardcover. Zustand: Very good. Zustand des Schutzumschlags: Very good. Presumed First Edition, First printing. x, 310 pages. Illustrations. Index. Inscribed by the author on the front free endpaper. Inscription reads, To Martha and Ken, With so many good wishes and shared memories of Happy Times in NYC and Westhampton. Enjoy April 1, 05 Phil Gates. DJ has slight wear and edge wrinkling. Phil Gates has told her story of her active career as a lawyer and the wife of one, both also intrepid sponsors of public causes, and its companion piece, the tale of her private existence as a wife, mother, world traveler and friend of the great and near great, in such a way as to blend an insightful picture of twentieth century America with the joyful example of how to lead life to its fullest. In this book, she presents a refreshing family memoir, tracing her family's history from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. She chronicles a loving family found in the melding of old library records, personal diaries, and hand-me-down tales of a southern girl who became one of the early women lawyers in the country. In this book, Philomene Gates presents a refreshing family memoir, tracing her family's history from the eighteenth century to the end of the twentieth. She chronicles a loving family found in the melding of old library records, personal diaries, and hand-me-down tales of a southern girl who became one of the early women lawyers in the country. Southern belle, lawyer with a strong social conscience, she does a splendid job of recreating her heritage, the roaring twenties, great deression, marriage and mothrhood. A totally readable, coloful, and warm memoir of a life lived to the fullest. Autobiography of a New York lawyer and socialite, who was born in Daytona, Florida in 1918. The first two chapters contain information about her Powell and Brown ancestors who lived in the Whiteville, North Carolina are during the Civil War and Reconstruction periods. "In A Soft Rebel Yell, Gates' approach is deceptively simple although her story of events, large and small, spans the lives of farmers who worked in the cotton fields and justices of the U.S. Supreme Court whom she knew during her law school days and thereafter in Washington, D.C. Her memoir is punctuated with anecdotes of many of the famous legal, intellectual, and public service luminaries of our times. She tells of the pleasures and disappointments abundant in the life she lived in Florida, Washington, D.C., and the fabulous years of the fifties and sixties in New York, As a wife, working professional, and dedicated volunteer, Philomene Gates offers a touching account of a life lived to the fullest. "-From dust jacket. "Phil Gates has told the story of her active career as a lawyer and the wife of one, both also intrepid sponsors of public causes, and its companion piece, the tale of her private existence as a wife, mother, world traveler and friend of the great and near great.…