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Love deeper than a river: my life in San Antonio

By Lila Banks Cockrell

Book information

Publisher
Trinity University Press;Maverick Books
ISBN
9781595348876, 9781595348883, 1595348883
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
7 MB (7787769 bytes)
Pages
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Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical;HISTORY--UniLila;Mayors -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography;W

Description

Intro; Foreword, by Henry Cisneros; One: The Lure of Texas, 1882-1922; Two: Loss and New Beginnings, 1923-39; Three: Love at First Sight, 1940-42; Four: Wife, Ensign, and Mother, 1943-50; Five: Back to Texas, 1948-55; Six: Falling in Love with a River, 1955-63; Seven: Eight Gentlemen and a Madam, 1963-68; Eight: A Ladylike Strategy, 1969-74; Nine: Madam Mayor, 1975-81; Ten: Changes, 1981-91; Eleven: San Antonio, I Love You, 1991-2018; Twelve: Summing Up, 2018; Acknowledgments;"Cockrell recalls her life as a public servant in San Antonio, Texas, and discusses her four terms as the city's first woman mayor, between 1975 and 1991, and her service on numerous municipal commissions, civic boards, foundations, and conservancies in the 1990s and into the early twenty-first century"--

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