Mary Chesnut's Diary

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Publisher
Penguin Group
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Pages
384
Dimensions
5.2 X 7.8 X 0.9 inches | 0.57 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780143106067

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About the Author
Mary Boykin Chesnut (1823-1886) was born into a wealthy South Carolina family. Her father, Stephen Decatur Miller, was a senator who supported states' rights and the legalization of slavery. She married James Chestnut in 1840 and they moved to Camden, New Jersey. Her husband later became a US senator but in 1860, after Abraham Lincoln was elected, he resigned his position. The couple relocated to North Carolina during the Civil War, and Mary recorded her thoughts in a diary that would be published in full after her death.

Catherine Clinton was born in Seattle and grew up in Kansas City. She is the Denman Professor of American History at the University of Texas at San Antonio and is an international research professor at Queen's University Belfast. She has served on several faculties in her more than thirty years of teaching, including the University of Benghazi, Harvard University, and the Citadel (the Military College of South Carolina). She is the author and editor of more than two dozen volumes, including The Plantation Mistress, Harriet Tubman: The Road to Freedom, Mrs. Lincoln: A Life, and edits her own series for Oxford University Press: Viewpoints on American Culture. She has served as a consultant on several film projects, including Steven Spielberg's Lincoln (2012). An elected member of the Society of American Historians, she remains a lifetime member of both the Lincoln Forum and the Southern Association for Women Historians.
Reviews
"[Mary Boykin Chesnut's] take on the Civil War, the run-up to it, and the nation's eventual collapse into the chaos of war, are profound and insightful. There's much to be learned from her thoughts--even today."
--James McBride, author of The Good Lord Bird and Deacon King Kong