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Civil War Wives: The Lives & Times of Angelina Grimke Weld, Varina Howell Davis & Julia Dent Grant
Written by Carol Berkin
Narrated by Donna Postel
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In these moving stories of Angelina Grimke 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.
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Carol Berkin
Carol Berkin is Professor of History at the City University of New York Graduate Center. She is the author of A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the American Constitution, Women's Voices/Women's Lives: Documents in Early American History, and coeditor, with Mary Beth Norton, of Women of America: A History.
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- Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Interesting short biographies of Varina Davis and Julia Dent Grant. Angelica Grimke was also good but not as interesting. I'm not sure why it was more tedious - possibly it was the primary sources quoted in the style of the early 19th century. Anyway, once I was past Angelica the whole pace of the book picked up and I finished it rather quickly.