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Book SynopsisIn these moving stories if Angelina Grimké Weld, wife of abolitionist Theodore Weld, Varina Howell Davis, wife of Confederate president Jefferson Davis, and Julia Dent grant, wife of Ulysses S. Grant, Carol Berkin reveals how women understood the cataclysmic events of their day. Their stories, taken together, help reconstruct the era of the Civil War with a greater depth and complexity by adding women''s experiences and voices to their male counterparts.
Trade Review"A Fascinating and lively narrative"—
The Christian Science Monitor "Thoroughly fascinating. . . . belongs on the bookshelf of all Civil War enthusiasts, right next to the biographies of Ulysses S. Grant, Jefferson Davis, and Mary Lincoln."— Jay Winik, author of
April 1865 and
The Great Upheaval "Using letters, books and other historical documents, Berkin paints a lively and empathetic picture of these women's lives."—
St. Petersburg Times "A well written, highly accessible exploration of marriage and the cult of true womanhood as it played out in the lives of three southern women. Berkin's fascinating case studies . . . reveal the complex interplay out in the lives of southern women of the Civil War era."—
Civil War Book Review
