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Varina Anne “Winnie” Davis was born into a war-torn South in
June of 1864, the youngest daughter of Confederate president
Jefferson Davis and his second wife, Varina Howell Davis. Born only
a month after the death of beloved Confederate hero general J.E.B.
Stuart during a string of Confederate victories, Winnie’s birth
was hailed as a blessing by war-weary Southerners. They felt her
arrival was a good omen signifying future victory. But after the
Confederacy’s ultimate defeat in the Civil War, Winnie would
spend her early life as a genteel refugee and an expatriate abroad.
After returning to the South from German boarding school, Winnie
was christened the “Daughter of the Confederacy” in 1886. This
role was bestowed upon her by a Southern culture trying to
sublimate its war losses. Particularly idolized by Confederate
veterans and the United Daughters of the Confederacy, Winnie became
an icon of the Lost Cause, eclipsing even her father Jefferson in
popularity. Winnie Davis: Daughter of the Lost Cause is the first
published biography of this little-known woman who unwittingly
became the symbolic female figure of the defeated South. Her
controversial engagement in 1890 to a Northerner lawyer whose
grandfather was a famous abolitionist, and her later move to work
as a writer in New York City, shocked her friends, family, and the
Southern groups who worshipped her. Faced with the pressures of a
community who violently rejected the match, Winnie desperately
attempted to reconcile her prominent Old South history with her
personal desire for tolerance and acceptance of her personal
choices.
Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The
true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and
Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.
On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six
years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots,
shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport
plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American
servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and
starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden
prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the
first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers
were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil
Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and
Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of
Families, would never have called themselves 'feminists', but they
had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to
extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom - and
to account for missing military men - by relentlessly lobbying
government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting
covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly,
helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a
page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells
the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League
of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.
The true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington -
and Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of
Vietnam. On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who,
just six years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force
pilots, shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military
transport plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These
American servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept
shackled and starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested,
mosquito-laden prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton.
Months later, the first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn
that their rescuers were their wives, a group of women that
included Jane Denton, Sybil Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea
Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and Helene Knapp. These women, who formed
The National League of Families, would never have called themselves
'feminists', but they had become the POW and MIAs most fervent
advocates, going to extraordinary lengths to facilitate their
husbands' freedom - and to account for missing military men - by
relentlessly lobbying government leaders, conducting a savvy media
campaign, conducting covert meetings with antiwar activists, and
most astonishingly, helping to code secret letters to their
imprisoned husbands. In a page-turning work of narrative
non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells the story of these remarkable
women for the first time. The League of Wives is certain to be on
everyone's must-read list.
Featured in Stylist's guide to 2019's best non-fiction books The
true story of the fierce band of women who battled Washington - and
Hanoi - to bring their husbands home from the jungles of Vietnam.
On 12 February, 1973, one hundred and sixteen men who, just six
years earlier, had been high flying Navy and Air Force pilots,
shuffled, limped, or were carried off a huge military transport
plane at Clark Air Base in the Philippines. These American
servicemen had endured years of brutal torture, kept shackled and
starving in solitary confinement, in rat-infested, mosquito-laden
prisons, the worst of which was The Hanoi Hilton. Months later, the
first Vietnam POWs to return home would learn that their rescuers
were their wives, a group of women that included Jane Denton, Sybil
Stockdale, Louise Mulligan, Andrea Rander, Phyllis Galanti, and
Helene Knapp. These women, who formed The National League of
Families, would never have called themselves 'feminists', but they
had become the POW and MIAs most fervent advocates, going to
extraordinary lengths to facilitate their husbands' freedom - and
to account for missing military men - by relentlessly lobbying
government leaders, conducting a savvy media campaign, conducting
covert meetings with antiwar activists, and most astonishingly,
helping to code secret letters to their imprisoned husbands. In a
page-turning work of narrative non-fiction, Heath Hardage Lee tells
the story of these remarkable women for the first time. The League
of Wives is certain to be on everyone's must-read list.
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