Book club: The Accidental Mayor

HiStory Book Club
November 24, 1:00 to 2:30 pm

The final book club for 2018 will be discussing The Accidental Mayor by Tomilea and James Allison.

In 1963, Tomilea Allison, a native Californian, was newly arrived in Bloomington, Indiana, as a faculty wife (her husband, James, was a professor in Indiana University’s department of psychology) with two young daughters. A few years later she found herself in charge of Senator Eugene McCarthy’s Monroe County primary campaign for president of the United States. In 1977 she was asked to fill a vacancy on the city council. In 1983, after the sitting mayor was elected to Congress, she was chosen to take his place and served for thirteen years.