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Author | : Eron Rowland |
Publisher | : Pelican Publishing |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 2000-01-31 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781455613540 |
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"Varina Davis is a lady in any event," Southern women of the aristocratic circles of Washington told the war correspondent of the London Times who had been sent to the National Capital to report all the news he could gather concerning the secession of the Southern States from the great American Union. There was a finality in their tones and manner as if the fact settled the whole question and right of secession. And being such perfect ladies themselves, who could be a better judge of what it took to be one. . . . They further informed him that Varina was popular and had friends and social influence in Washington, adding with pursed lips that she belonged to the set they called �nice people�; not like �such people� as he had seen in the White House. Thus Mrs. Jefferson Davis was described to one who, with piqued curiosity, was soon to meet her as the First Lady of the Southern Confederacy. . . . But Varina Howell Davis came proudly to her high station. She was not without a due understanding of its significance, nor was she without the feeling that she, in some degree, deserved the distinction." --from Chapter I In this volume, Mrs. Rowland has written a charming and accurate historical narrative of the Southern Confederacy in which the wife of Jefferson Davis plays a part that holds and fascinates the reader. The narrative, written in an easy, yet frank and forceful style, denotes the work as an important contribution to American biography.
Author | : Joan E. Cashin |
Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
Total Pages | : 416 |
Release | : 2009-07-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0674029267 |
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When Jefferson Davis became president of the Confederacy, his wife, Varina Howell Davis, reluctantly became the First Lady. For this highly intelligent, acutely observant woman, loyalty did not come easily: she spent long years struggling to reconcile her societal duties to her personal beliefs. Raised in Mississippi but educated in Philadelphia, and a long-time resident of Washington, D.C., Mrs. Davis never felt at ease in Richmond. During the war she nursed Union prisoners and secretly corresponded with friends in the North. Though she publicly supported the South, her term as First Lady was plagued by rumors of her disaffection. After the war, Varina Davis endured financial woes and the loss of several children, but following her husband's death in 1889, she moved to New York and began a career in journalism. Here she advocated reconciliation between the North and South and became friends with Julia Grant, the widow of Ulysses S. Grant. She shocked many by declaring in a newspaper that it was God's will that the North won the war. A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly work, the first definitive biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Varina Davis was inhibited by her role as Confederate First Lady and unable to reveal her true convictions. In this pathbreaking book, Cashin offers a splendid portrait of a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place.
Author | : Carol Berkin |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 386 |
Release | : 2010-11-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1400095786 |
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In 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.
Author | : Gamaliel Bradford |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 368 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Varina Davis |
Publisher | : New York, Belford [1890] |
Total Pages | : 748 |
Release | : 1890 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Amy S. Greenberg |
Publisher | : Vintage |
Total Pages | : 434 |
Release | : 2020-01-21 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0804173443 |
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The little-known story of remarkable First Lady Sarah Polk—a brilliant master of the art of high politics and a crucial but unrecognized figure in the history of American feminism. While the Women’s Rights convention was taking place at Seneca Falls in 1848, First Lady Sarah Childress Polk was wielding influence unprecedented for a woman in Washington, D.C. Yet, while history remembers the women of the convention, it has all but forgotten Sarah Polk. Now, in her riveting biography, Amy S. Greenberg brings Sarah’s story into vivid focus. We see Sarah as the daughter of a frontiersman who raised her to discuss politics and business with men; we see the savvy and charm she brandished in order to help her brilliant but unlikeable husband, James K. Polk, ascend to the White House. We watch as she exercises truly extraordinary power as First Lady: quietly manipulating elected officials, shaping foreign policy, and directing a campaign in support of America’s expansionist war against Mexico. And we meet many of the enslaved men and women whose difficult labor made Sarah’s political success possible. Sarah Polk’s life spanned nearly the entirety of the nineteenth-century. But her own legacy, which profoundly transformed the South, continues to endure. Comprehensive, nuanced, and brimming with invaluable insight, Lady First is a revelation of our twelfth First Lady’s complex but essential part in American feminism.
Author | : Varina Davis |
Publisher | : Legare Street Press |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2023-07-18 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 9781021817877 |
Download Jefferson Davis, Ex-president Of The Confederate States Of America; Volume 1 Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Written by the wife of Jefferson Davis, this biography offers a unique perspective on one of the most controversial figures of the Civil War era. Drawing on personal letters and other primary sources, Varina Davis paints a portrait of her husband as a principled statesman who fought to defend the rights of his fellow Southerners. This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author | : Bruce Catton |
Publisher | : Doubleday |
Total Pages | : 752 |
Release | : 2013-07-24 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0307833070 |
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award! A thrilling, page-turning piece of writing that describes the forces conspiring to tear apart the United States—with the disintegrating political processes and rising tempers finally erupting at Bull Run. " . . . a major work by a major writer, a superb recreation of the twelve crucial months that opened the Civil War." —The New York Times
Author | : Guy Gugliotta |
Publisher | : Macmillan |
Total Pages | : 498 |
Release | : 2012 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 0809046814 |
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The history of the modern U.S. Capitol, the iconic seat of American government, is also the chronicle of America's most tumultuous years. An award-winning journalist has captured with impeccable detail the clash of personalities behind the building of the Capitol and its extraordinary design and engineering.
Author | : Bernice-Marie Yates |
Publisher | : Xulon Press |
Total Pages | : 373 |
Release | : 2003-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 1591604524 |
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