Alone Atop the Hill : University of Georgia Press : 9780820351384 : 0820351385 : 28 Feb 2017 : In 1942 Alice Allison Dunnigan, a sharecropper&;s daughter from Kentucky, made her way to the nation&;s capital and a career in journalism that eventually led her to the White House. With Alone atop the Hill, Carol McCabe Booker has condensed Dunnigan&;s 1974 self-published autobiography to appeal to a general audience and has added scholarly annotations that provide historical context. Dunnigan&;s dynamic story reveals her importance to the fields of journalism, women&;s history, and the civil rights movement and creates a compelling portrait of a groundbreaking American. Dunnigan recounts her formative years in rural Kentucky as she struggled for a living, telling bluntly and simply what life was like in a Border State in the first half of the twentieth century. Later she takes readers to Washington, D.C., where we see her rise from a typist during World War II to a reporter. Ultimately sh