Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste & Friend to Mrs Lincoln
de Keckley, Elizabeth
- Usado
- Tapa dura
- Estado
- About Fine/No Jacket (as issued)
- Librería
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Albuquerque, New Mexico, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Chicago, IL: he Lakeside Press, 1998. Facsimile Reprint. . Cloth. About Fine/No Jacket (as issued). Facsimile Reprint. Hard cover 12mo in brown cloth w/gold dec and spine titles. About Fine in lightly scuffed boards, else Fine and unmarked/no DJ (as issued). 312pp inc. Appendix, Index; well-illustrated in photos.
Sinopsis
Originally published in 1868—when it was attacked as an “indecent book” authored by a “traitorous eavesdropper”— Behind the Scenes is the story of Elizabeth Keckley, who began her life as a slave and became a privileged witness to the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. Keckley bought her freedom at the age of thirty-seven and set up a successful dressmaking business in Washington, D.C. She became modiste to Mary Todd Lincoln and in time her friend and confidante, a relationship that continued after Lincoln’s assassination. In documenting that friendship—often using the First Lady’s own letters— Behind the Scenes fuses the slave narrative with the political memoir. It remains extraordinary for its poignancy, candor, and historical perspective. First time in Penguin Classics
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- Librería
- Basement Books
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 038979
- Título
- Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste & Friend to Mrs Lincoln
- Autor
- Keckley, Elizabeth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Cloth
- Estado del libro
- Usado - About Fine
- Estado de la sobrecubierta
- No Jacket (as issued)
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Edición
- Facsimile Reprint.
- Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Editorial
- he Lakeside Press
- Lugar de publicación
- Chicago, IL
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- BIOGRAPHY HISTORY AMERICAN SLAVERY SLAVE
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Non-fiction; History;
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Basement Books
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Albuquerque, New Mexico
Sobre Basement Books
BASEMENT BOOKS, in Albuquerque, New Mexico, specializes in hard-to-find non-fiction, Western Americana, History, and First Edition mysteries and literature.
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