"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.