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Clara Barton, Professional Angel (Paperback, New edition)
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Clara Barton, Professional Angel (Paperback, New edition)
Series: Studies in Health, Illness, and Caregiving
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Widely known today as the "Angel of the Battlefield," Clara
Barton's personal life has always been shrouded in mystery. In
Clara Barton, Professional Angel, Elizabeth Brown Pryor presents a
biography of Barton that strips away the heroic exterior and
reveals a complex and often trying woman. Based on the papers Clara
Barton carefully saved over her lifetime, this biography is the
first one to draw on these recorded thoughts. Besides her own
voluminous correspondence, it reflects the letters and
reminiscences of lovers, a grandniece who probed her aunt's
venerable facade, and doctors who treated her nervous disorders.
She emerges as a vividly human figure. Continually struggling to
cope with her insecure family background and a society that offered
much less than she had to give, she chose achievement as the
vehicle for gaining the love and recognition that frequently eluded
her during her long life. Not always altruistic, her
accomplishments were nonetheless extraordinary. On the battlefields
of the Civil War, in securing American participation in the
International Red Cross, in promoting peacetime disaster relief,
and in fighting for women's rights, Clara Barton made an
unparalleled contribution to American social progress. Yet the true
measure of her life must be made from this perspective: she dared
to offend a society whose acceptance she treasured, and she put all
of her energy into patching up the lives of those around her when
her own was rent and frayed.
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