TY  - BOOK
AU  - Berkin,Carol
TI  - Civil War wives
SN  - 9781400044467
AV  - E628 .B47 2009
U1  - 973.7082 22
PY  - 2009///
CY  - New York
PB  - Alfred A. Knopf
KW  - 
KW  - Davis, Varina,
KW  - Grant, Julia Dent,
KW  - American Civil War (1861-1865)
KW  - fast
KW  - Women
KW  - United States
KW  - Biography
KW  - Wives
KW  - HISTORY
KW  - Civil War Period (1850-1877)
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Marriage
KW  - Sezessionskrieg
KW  - 1861-1865
KW  - gnd
KW  - Soziales Engagement
KW  - Frau
KW  - swd
KW  - History
KW  - Civil War, 1861-1865
KW  - Biographies
KW  - lcgft
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 317-345) and index; Varina Howell Davis. "The happy fireside": The deep South before the Civil War -- From the briars to the hurricane: Varina Banks Howell and Jefferson Davis -- "The desire I have to be with you every day and all day": The courtship of Jefferson Davis and Va; Julia Dent Grant. The winds of change, the shelter of tradition -- "One long summer of sunshine": Growing up in Missouri -- "But one sweetheart in his life": The courtship of Julia Dent Grant -- "His loving little wife": Creating a home and starting a family -- "Cheer up, make the best of this": The return to civilian life -- "As I was a Democrat at that time": The opportunities of war -- "The horrid old Constitution": Julia's personal war -- "If your mind is made up": Marital relations in wartime -- "There will be an outbreak tonight": Victory and assassination -- "What shouts went up!": A hero and his wife -- "Ulys, do you wish to be President?": The early White House years -- "Nice people, questionable people, and people who were not nice at all": Weddings and scandals in the White House -- "A waif on the world's wide common": Julia becomes a world traveler -- "Do you not desire success?": From politics to poverty -- "Warmed in the sunlight of his loyal love and great fame": Julia becomes a widow -- "Living again, with the aid of my fancy and my pen": Julia Dent Grant writes her memoirs
N2  - In the life stories of three "accidental heroes"--Women whose marriages provided them with position and perspective they would not otherwise have had--one of the nation's premier historians offers a unique understanding of the tumultuous social and political landscape of their time; "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
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