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Varina

by Charles Frazier · 2018

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"Her marriage prospects limited, teenage Varina Howell agrees to wed the much-older widower Jefferson Davis, with whom she expects the secure life of a Mississippi landowner. Davis instead pursues a career in politics and is eventually appointed president of the Confederacy, placing Varina at the white-hot center of one of the darkest moments in American history"—

Genre
war and militarywar and militaryMore like thisLess of thisAmerican Civil WarAmerican Civil WarMore like thisLess of thishistorical fictionhistorical fictionMore like thisLess of this
Themes
relationshipsrelationshipsMore like thisLess of this
Setting
civil warcivil warMore like thisLess of thisUSAUSAMore like thisLess of this
Subject
biographybiographyMore like thisLess of thishistoryhistoryMore like thisLess of this
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 368 pages

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