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[2016]
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The story of the Civil War is incomplete without examining the extraordinary and influential lives of four women who influenced their husbands Jesse Fremont, Nelly McClellan, Ellen Sherman, and Julia Grant. They were their husband's closest confidantes and had a profound impact on their ambitions and actions. And, these women's attitudes toward and relationship with Lincoln had major historical significance. Relying on a close reading of letters,...
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[2020]
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"Steve Inskeep tells the riveting story of John and Jessie Frémont, the husband and wife team who in the 1800s were instrumental in the westward expansion of the United States, and thus became America's first great political couple John Frémont grew up amid family tragedy and shame. Born out of wedlock in 1813, he went to work at age thirteen to help support his family in Charleston, South Carolina. He was a nobody. Yet, by the 1840s, he rose to...
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1983
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IL: UG - BL: 6.9 - AR Pts: 5
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A biography of the woman who along with her husband, an Army officer, explorer, and legislator, took part in some of the most important events of nineteenth-century America including the exploration of the west and the formation of the Republican Party.
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