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First lady of the Confederacy : Varina Davis's Civil War / Joan E. Cashin.
LIBRA E467.1.D27 C36 2006
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cashin, Joan E.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Davis, Varina, 1826-1906.
- Davis, Varina.
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889.
- Presidents' spouses--Confederate States of America--Biography.
- Presidents' spouses.
- Families.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Biography.
- United States.
- History.
- United States--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Social aspects.
- Social aspects.
- Confederate States of America--Social conditions.
- Confederate States of America.
- Davis, Jefferson, 1808-1889--Family.
- Davis, Jefferson.
- Genre:
- Biographies.
- Physical Description:
- 403 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press, 2006.
- Summary:
- A century after Varina Davis's death in 1906, Joan E. Cashin has written a masterly biography of this truly modern, but deeply conflicted, woman. Pro-slavery but also pro-Union, Davis was a fascinating woman who struggled with the constraints of her time and place. 29 halftone photos.
- Contents:
- Half breed
- Jefferson Davis
- Flattered and courted
- First lady
- No matter what the danger
- Holocausts of herself
- Run with the rest
- Threadbare great folks
- Topic of the day
- Crowd of sorrows
- Fascinating failures
- The girdled tree
- Delectable city (New York City)
- Like Martha
- At peace.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 315-391) and index.
- ISBN:
- 0674022947
- OCLC:
- 64625034
- Publisher Number:
- 9780674022942
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