"A Long Life With a Good Wife" is the story of Jesse Louie McDaniel. Born in the years preceding the Great Depression, McDaniel shares vivid memories of his boyhood and World War II, as well as his many years in the field of higher education. Living in the eastern North Carolina town of Kinston, North Carolina, until the advent of World War II, McDaniel experienced the effects of the Great Depression, with its economic and social upheavals, as well as the richness of strong family ties and the interdependence of small town living. His story is one which many readers will find familiar, told with humor and enthusiasm.