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Varina
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Author : Charles Frazier
language : en
Publisher: Hachette UK
Release Date : 2018-09-06
Varina written by Charles Frazier and has been published by Hachette UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-09-06 with Fiction categories.
The new novel from the number one bestselling author of Cold Mountain - a stunning portrait of the devastation left by the American Civil War, as seen through the eyes of a woman who played a part at the heart of it. Sooner or later, history asks: which side were you on? 'Moving' Sunday Times 'Here's a woman of the Civil War to outshine Scarlett O'Hara' The Times 'Beneath the chilling, photogenic story, the writing remains beautiful' - Independent With her marriage prospects ruined in the wake of her father's financial decline, teenage Varina Howell decides her best option is to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects a life of security as a Mississippi landowner. When he instead pursues a career in politics and is appointed President of the Confederacy, it puts Varina at the white-hot centre of one of the darkest moments in American history - culpable regardless of her intentions. As the Confederacy prepares to surrender and she finds herself friendless and alone, Varina and her children escape Richmond. With her marriage in tatters and the country divided, they travel south, now fugitives with 'bounties on their heads, an entire nation in pursuit'.
Varina Howell
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Author : Rowland, Eron
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 1931
Varina Howell written by Rowland, Eron and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with categories.
Varina Howell Volume 1
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Author : Eron Rowland
language : en
Publisher: Pelican Publishing
Release Date : 2000-01-31
Varina Howell Volume 1 written by Eron Rowland and has been published by Pelican Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-01-31 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
"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.
Varina
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Author : Charles Frazier
language : en
Publisher: Ecco
Release Date : 2018
Varina written by Charles Frazier and has been published by Ecco this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018 with FICTION categories.
"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"--
I Varina
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Author : Ruth Painter Randall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1962
I Varina written by Ruth Painter Randall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1962 with categories.
Varina Howell Wife Of Jefferson Davis
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Author : Eron Rowland
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1931
Varina Howell Wife Of Jefferson Davis written by Eron Rowland and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1931 with categories.
Biography of Varina Anne Banks (Howell) Davis (1826-1906), wife of Jefferson Davis who served as President of the Confederates States of America.
The Cox S Overseer S Site 44he321 Varina On The James
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Author : Carole L. Nash
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1985
The Cox S Overseer S Site 44he321 Varina On The James written by Carole L. Nash and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1985 with Excavations (Archaeology) categories.
Lincoln Davis
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Author : Brian R. Dirck
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001
Lincoln Davis written by Brian R. Dirck and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
As "Savior of the Union" and the "Great Emancipator," Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's assertion that Lincoln was the "white man's president" has been used by some detractors as proof of his fundamentally racist character. Viewed objectively, Lincoln was a white man's president by virtue of his own whiteness and that of the culture that produced him. Until now, however, historians have rarely explored just what this means for our understanding of the man and his actions. Writing at the vanguard of "whiteness studies," Brian Dirck considers Lincoln as a typical American white man of his time who bore the multiple assumptions, prejudices, and limitations of his own racial identity. He shows us a Lincoln less willing or able to transcend those limitations than his more heroic persona might suggest but also contends that Lincoln's understanding and approach to racial bigotry was more enlightened than those of most of his white contemporaries. Blazing a new trail in Lincoln studies, Dirck reveals that Lincoln was well aware of and sympathetic to white fears, especially that of descending into "white trash," a notion that gnawed at a man eager to distance himself from his own coarse origins. But he also shows that after Lincoln crossed the Rubicon of black emancipation, he continued to grow beyond such cultural constraints, as seen in his seven recorded encounters with nonwhites. Dirck probes more deeply into what "white" meant in Lincoln's time and what it meant to Lincoln himself, and from this perspective he proposes a new understanding of how Lincoln viewed whiteness as a distinct racial category that influenced his policies. As Dirck ably demonstrates, Lincoln rose far enough above the confines of his culture to accomplish deeds still worthy of our admiration, and he calls for a more critically informed admiration of Lincoln that allows us to celebrate his considerable accomplishments while simultaneously recognizing his limitations. When Douglass observed that Lincoln was the white man's president, he may not have intended it as a serious analytical category. But, as Dirck shows, perhaps we should do so—the better to understand not just the Lincoln presidency, but the man himself.
American Short Horn Record
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Author : Humphrey Evans
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1880
American Short Horn Record written by Humphrey Evans and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1880 with Cattle categories.
First Lady Of The Confederacy
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Author : Joan E. Cashin
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2009-07-01
First Lady Of The Confederacy written by Joan E. Cashin and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-07-01 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
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.