Ebook: Love deeper than a river: my life in San Antonio
Author: Lila Banks Cockrell
- Tags: BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY--Historical, HISTORY--United States--State & Local--General, Mayors, Mayors--Texas--San Antonio, Politics and government, Women mayors, Women mayors--Texas--San Antonio, Biography, Biographies, Cockrell Lila, Mayors -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography, Women mayors -- Texas -- San Antonio -- Biography, San Antonio (Tex.) -- Biography, San Antonio (Tex.) -- Politics and government -- 20th century, BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY -- Historical, HISTORY -- United States -- State & Local --
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Trinity University Press
- City: San Antonio (Tex.);Texas;San Antonio
- Language: English
- epub
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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