"Hamilton makes clear in this intelligent and sensitive biography [that] Hill, whose 45 years in Congress spanned the presidents from Calvin Coolidge to Lyndon Johnson, deserves to be remembered, both for the impressive legislative record he compiled and for the light he shed on southern liberalism in the 20th century."

-- Journal of Southern History

"Hamilton's fine book is based on extensive research [and] it will be of interest to a general audience as well as to scholars."

-- Journal of American History

"This is an important work about a highly influential lawmaker."

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Virginia Van der Veer Hamilton is Professor Emerita of History at The University of Alabama at Birmingham and author of Hugo Black: The Alabama Years.

• CONTENTS 
• Acknowledgments
• 1 
• The Preparation, 1894–1916
• 2 
• The First Campaign, 1923
• 3 
• The Young Congressman, 1923–1932
• 4 
• The Making of a New Dealer, 1933–1937
• 5 
• The Wartime Years, 1938–1944
• 6 
• The Crucial Test, 1944
• 7 
• The Transition, 1945–1946
• 8 
• The Democratic Loyalist, 1948–1950
• 9 
• The Democratic Loyalist, 1951–1954
• 10 
• The Senior Statesman, 1955–1956
• 11 
• The Politics of Race, 1956–1957
• 12 
• The Shifting Sands of Politics, 1958–1961
• 13 
• The Strongest Challenge, 1962
• 14 
• The Last Term, 1963–1969
• 15 
• The Homecoming, 1969–1984
• Coda
• Appendix
• Notes
• Bibliographical Essay
• Index