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Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The Lakeside Classics)
de KECKLEY, Elizabeth
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- Aceptable
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- Aceptable
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Gloucester City, New Jersey, United States
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Sobre este artículo
Chicago: The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company, 1998. Hardcover. Fine. Later printing. Edited by Frances Smith Foster. 12mo. lxxvii, 319pp. Illustrated in color and in black-and-white from photographs and artwork. Brown clothcovered boards stamped in gilt with gilt top edge. Fine.
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
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
(US)
- Inventario del vendedor #
- 563660
- Título
- Behind the Scenes: Formerly a Slave, but More Recently Modiste, and Friend to Mrs. Lincoln or, Thirty Years a Slave, and Four Years in the White House (The Lakeside Classics)
- Autor
- KECKLEY, Elizabeth
- Formato/Encuadernación
- Tapa dura
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Aceptable
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Editorial
- The Lakeside Press / R.R. Donnelley & Sons Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Chicago
- Fecha de publicación
- 1998
- Palabras clave
- Americana, African-Americana, History, Women
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Americana; African-Americana;
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- Fine
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- 12mo
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- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
