Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, has published biographies of Frederick Lewis Allen and Owen Wister as well as many other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a biography of Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and former mayor of Dallas.

"If you want to know how awesome Sarah T. Hughes was, she passed a state income tax through the Texas House of Representatives in 1932, something no one has done before or since. Darwin Payne gives us a full account of her decades-long struggles against racism, sexism, poverty and injustice. We are lucky to have this splendid account of one of Texas's greatest freedom fighters." - Molly Ivins; "A terrific saga of an extraordinary woman and of an era in Texas politics that no longer exists. Sarah T. Hughes would have been the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court had she been ten years younger." - Congressman Martin Frost"

Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, has published biographies of Frederick Lewis Allen and Owen Wister as well as many other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a biography of Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and former mayor of Dallas.

"If you want to know how awesome Sarah T. Hughes was, she passed a state income tax through the Texas House of Representatives in 1932, something no one has done before or since. Darwin Payne gives us a full account of her decades-long struggles against racism, sexism, poverty and injustice. We are lucky to have this splendid account of one of Texas's greatest freedom fighters." - Molly Ivins; "A terrific saga of an extraordinary woman and of an era in Texas politics that no longer exists. Sarah T. Hughes would have been the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court had she been ten years younger." - Congressman Martin Frost"

Darwin Payne, professor emeritus of communications at Southern Methodist University, has published biographies of Frederick Lewis Allen and Owen Wister as well as many other books. He holds a Ph.D. in American civilization from the University of Texas at Austin. He is currently working on a biography of Erik Jonsson, a founder of Texas Instruments and former mayor of Dallas.

"If you want to know how awesome Sarah T. Hughes was, she passed a state income tax through the Texas House of Representatives in 1932, something no one has done before or since. Darwin Payne gives us a full account of her decades-long struggles against racism, sexism, poverty and injustice. We are lucky to have this splendid account of one of Texas's greatest freedom fighters." - Molly Ivins; "A terrific saga of an extraordinary woman and of an era in Texas politics that no longer exists. Sarah T. Hughes would have been the first woman on the U.S. Supreme Court had she been ten years younger." - Congressman Martin Frost"