Eleanor Holmes Norton
Subtitle: fire in my soul
By: Joan Steinau Lester as authorized by Eleanor Holmes Norton ; [foreword by Coretta Scott King]
Contributors: Norton, Eleanor Holmes
Publisher: Atria Books
Published: 2003
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 370
Subjects: United States; United States. Congress. House; Legislators; Biography; African American women
Other titles: Fire in my soul.
Description: "Here is the story of U.S. Congresswoman Eleanor Holmes Norton - impassioned civil rights activist, hard-driving legislator, and one of the most powerful women in American history.".

"Joan Steinau Lester shared much of the last forty years with Eleanor Holmes Norton. They met in 1958 when they were both students at Antioch College. Now an acclaimed author, Lester shares her friendship with the congresswoman and tells the story of one woman's rise to leadership.

Charting forty years of political and personal challenge, Fire in My Soul shows Norton marching on the Capitol to demand a Senate hearing for Anita Hill; grilling Army generals about sex abuse; arguing before the Supreme Court to uphold first amendment rights, even for a segregationist; and much more. Norton's story is organically linked to Washington, D.C., home to her family for four generations, and reveals why she is now the voice of the city."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 331-350) and index.