Fire in My Soul (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780743407885)

Impassioned civil rights activist, champion of women's rights, hard-driving legislator -- U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton is known in Washington as the "Warrior on the Hill." Fire in My Soul is the story of Norton's extraordinary political career, told from a personal perspective.
Author Joan Steinau Lester met Norton in 1958 while they were both students at Antioch College. Fire in My Soul charts their longstanding friendship and tells of Norton's rise to leadership -- from her early on-campus activism to demanding a Senate hearing for Anita Hill to standing before the Supreme Court to uphold first amendment rights. Filled with scores of Lester's conversations and correspondence with Norton, interviews with Norton's colleagues and confidantes, and dozens of original photographs, Fire in My Soul is a compelling biography of one of the greatest political pioneers in American history.

Author: Joan Steinau Lester
ISBN-10: 0743407881
ISBN-13: 9780743407885
Publisher: Atria Books
Language: English
Published: 01/06/2004
Pages: 384
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.83lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.58w x 1.03d

Review Citation(s):
Women's Review of Books 05/01/2004 pg. 16