Lewie
By: Lewis R. Donelson, III
Contributors: Rhodes College. Alumni as authors
Publisher: Rhodes College
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Memphis, TN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 332
ISBN-13: 9780615567525
Subjects: Politicians; Lawyers; Biography; Donelson family
Description: "In these memoirs [Lewis Donelson] recounts his family history, that golden childhood, prep school at Choate, college at Southwestern at Memphis (now Rhodes College), law school at Georgetown, marriage to his beloved Janice Ost, his wife of 65 years, and his lifelong devotion to Idlewild Presbyterian Church. But Lewis Donelson has never been a 9 to 5 man. Along his career path, he resurrected the Republican Party in Shelby County and the state of Tennessee, helping put GOP governors and senators in office for the first time since Reconstruction. As a member of the Memphis City Council in the 1960s, he was a peacemaker during the sanitation workers' strike. He served two Tennessee Republican governors, effecting several major policies that remain in effect to this day." -- Book jacket.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: My Donelson legacy; title: My Nicholson legacy; title: My grandparents; title: My parents; title: A golden childhood; title: The best school ever : Pentecost; title: Many happy summers : Camp Chickasaw; title: Choate : a new world; title: Southwestern; title: Law school : born to be a lawyer; title: My year as a bureaucrat; title: My year as a law clerk; title: A great beginning; title: Marriage to Janice Ost; title: Idlewild; title: Solo practice, Snowden & Davis; title: My own firm; title: Rebirth and growth of the Republican party; title: Other civic works; title: The firm begins to grow : creating a modern law firm; title: The City Council and the Sanitation Worker's Strike; title: The Winfield Dunn miracle and after; title: Post City Council activities; title: A political interim; title: The firm spreads over Tennessee; title: State education; title: Some major cases; title: The change of command; title: New challenges; title: Conclusions.