The reminiscences of Emily Smith (Mrs. John A.) Warner

Topics include: recollections of father, Alfred E. Smith: boyhood and education, career in New York State Assembly, terms as Governor, 1928 campaign, civil rights stands, Prohibition; Tammany Hall; 1927 Governors' Conference; Smith's differences with Franklin D. Roosevelt. Impressions of Belle Moskowitz, Robert Moses, William Randolph Hearst, and Mayors James Walker and Fiorello La Guardia.