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Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant
by Carol Berkin
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- Fine
- Paperback
- Condition
- Fine
- ISBN 10
- 161664236X
- ISBN 13
- 9781616642365
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Ridgeley, West Virginia, United States
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About This Item
Text is clean and unmarked in bright, tight, and square covers. Only defect is a very slight crease at the bottom outside corner of the front cover. Volume appears unused. Spine is not creased. From the Preface, "The women who are the subject of this book stand between the powerful and the anonymous, the famous and the ordinary. Their lives were in many ways privileged, but in others they were anomalous, for through their marriages to leading figures they had access to the seats of power but no power themselves. Their positions in society gave them a unique perspective on the decisions and events that changed their world."
Synopsis
Here are the life stories of three women who connect us to our national past and provide windows onto a social and political landscape that is strangely familiar yet shockingly foreign.Berkin focuses on three "accidental heroes" who left behind sufficient records to allow their voices to be heard clearly and to allow us to see the world as they did. Though they held no political power themselves, all three had access to power and unique perspectives on events of their time.Angelina Grimke Weld, after a painful internal dialogue, renounced the values of her Southern family's way of life and embraced the antislavery movement, but found her voice silenced by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. Varina Howell Davis had an independent mind and spirit but incurred the disapproval of her husband, Jefferson Davis, when she would not behave as an obedient wife. Though ill-prepared and ill-suited for her role as First Lady of the Confederacy, she became an expert political lobbyist for her husband's release from prison. Julia Dent Grant, the wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was a model of genteel domesticity who seemed content with the restrictions of marriage and motherhood, even though they led to alternating periods of fame and disgrace, wealth and poverty. Only late in life did she glimpse the price of dependency.Throughout, Berkin captures the tensions and animosities of the antebellum era and the disruptions, anxieties, and dislocations generated by the war and its aftermath.From the Hardcover edition.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Grampy's Bookcase
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2bc1602046
- Title
- Civil War Wives
- Author
- Carol Berkin
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 161664236X
- ISBN 13
- 9781616642365
- Publisher
- Knopf
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 0001-01
- Pages
- 361
- Keywords
- Civil War
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Ridgeley, West Virginia
About Grampy's Bookcase
A private collector with over three thousand quality used books. Many books are quite old and cover many topics, particularly history and related social sciences. Included is a large collection of early and mid 20th century books on the history of the labor movement and socialist party in the United States. After a lifetime of collecting, looking for good homes for these prized editions.
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