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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 power themselves, all three had access to power

and unique perspectives on events of their time.

Angelina Grimké Weld, after a painful internal

dialogue, renounced the values of her Southern family’s way of life

and embraced the antislavery movement, but found her voice silenced

by marriage to fellow reformer Theodore Weld. Varina Howell Davis

had an independent mind and spirit but incurred the disapproval of

her husband, Jefferson Davis, when she would not behave as an

obedient wife. Though ill-prepared and ill-suited for her role as

First Lady of the Confederacy, she became an expert political

lobbyist for her husband’s release from prison. Julia Dent Grant,

the wife of Ulysses S. Grant, was a model of genteel domesticity

who seemed content with the restrictions of marriage and

motherhood, even though they led to alternating periods of fame and

disgrace, wealth and poverty. Only late in life did she glimpse the

price of dependency.

Throughout, Berkin captures the tensions and

animosities of the antebellum era and the disruptions, anxieties,

and dislocations generated by the war and its aftermath.

Winner of the 2010 Colonial Dames of

America Book Award

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Carol Berkin received her A.B. from Barnard

College and her M.A. and Ph.D. from Columbia University. She taught

at Baruch College from 1972 to 2008 and has taught at the Graduate

Center of the City University of New York since 1983. She is

currently Baruch Presidential Professor of History. Berkin is the

author of Revolutionary Mothers: Women in the Struggle for

America’s Independence, A Brilliant Solution: Inventing the

American Constitution, Jonathan Sewall: Odyssey of an

American Loyalist, First Generations: Women in Colonial

America, and numerous articles and reviews. She lives in New

York City and Guilford, Connecticut.

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