Civil War Wives: The Lives and Times of Angelina Grimk Weld, Varina Howell Davis, and Julia Dent Grant
Carol Berkin, . . Knopf, $27.95 (361pp) ISBN 978-1-4000-4446-7
The wives of abolitionist Theodore Dwight Weld, Confederacy president Jefferson Davis and Union commander Ulysses S. Grant don't fit comfortably between one book's covers. Though they lived during roughly the same period, they differed in disposition, situation aspiration and gifts. But Baruch College and CUNY Graduate Center historian Berkin (
Reviewed on: 07/13/2009
Genre: Nonfiction
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