Desire to Serve: The Autobiography of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson

Honorable Mention for the Foreword Indies Award in Political Science

Desire to Serve is the autobiography of Congresswoman Eddie Bernice Johnson (1934–2023), a thirty-year member of the United States House of Representatives, in her words as told to Cheryl Brown Wattley. It chronicles Johnson growing up in segregated Waco, Texas; attending St. Mary’s nursing school in South Bend, Indiana; working at the Veterans Admini...