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"Harriet Tubman could not have found a more perfect biographer--this book is a triumph."
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About the Author
Catherine Clinton was born in Seattle on April 5, 1952. She was raised in Kansas City, Missouri from the age of two and attended the Sunset Hill School for Girls (now Pembroke Hill School), graduating in 1969. She graduated from Harvard University (Lowell House) with a joint degree in Sociology and Afro-American Studies in 1973. Her senior honors thesis was on the role of the plantation mistress in the Old South. She won the Isobel Briggs Traveling Fellowship from Radcliffe College and went to England. She received her M.A. in American Studies from the University of Sussex in 1974, completing her thesis on Fanny Kemble. After a detour as an instructor at the University of Benghazi in the Libyan Arab Republic, she returned to the United States to attend Princeton University. She entered the Ph.D. program in history at Princeton University in 1975 and left to take a job at Union College in 1979. She received her doctorate in history from Princeton in 1980, completing her dissertation on the role of the plantation mistress from 1780-1835 under the direction of James M. McPherson. In 1982 she married New York City architect Daniel Lee Colbert. In 1983 she left Union College to take a job in the history department at Harvard University, the same year that she published her first book: The Plantation Mistress: Woman's World in the Old South. She and her husband moved to Winchester, Massachusetts. In 1984 her first child, Drew Colbert was born in Boston. The same year her second book, The Other Civil War: American Women in the Nineteenth Century, appeared. In 1988 she left the history department at Harvard to teach in the Department of American Studies at Brandeis University. During this period, she became interested in children's education and became a consultant and writer for secondary school social studies texts. In 1989 her second son, Ned Colbert, was born in Boston. In 1990 she returned Harvard to teach in the Department of Afro-American Studies. She and her family moved to Greenwich, Ct. in 1991. In the fall of 1993, she left Harvard to teach African-American literature in the Department of English at Brown University, where she taught for one semester. In 1994 she decided to concentrate on writing full time to give her the flexibility to spend more time with her young children. She has written, edited, co-authored or co-edited over a dozen books to date. In 1993 she became interested in screenwriting and sold several historical projects for television, although none, to date, have been produced. She has written for the History Channel, consulted on projects for WGBH, and is a member of the Screen Writer's Guild. She also became involved in writing children's books, and has concentrated on non-fiction books for kids. In the fall of 1997 she held the Douglas Southall Freeman Visiting Chair of History at the University of Richmond, and then in the fall of 1998 was the Lewis Jones Visiting Chair of History at Wofford College, in Spartanburg, South Carolina. From the fall of 1999 until May 2001 she held the Weissman Visiting Chair of History at Baruch College, City University of New York. For the academic year 2001-2002 she held the Mark Clark Chair of History at the Citadel, in Charleston, South Carolina. In 2003-2004, she will be a visiting professor at Wesleyan University in Middletown, Ct. She continues to be an affiliate of the Gilder Lehrman Center at Yale University. Her newest children's book, A Poem of Her Own, has been published by Harry Abrams in 2003. She has recently completed a biographical study of Harriet Tubman.
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Product details
Paperback: 304 pages
Publisher: Back Bay Books; Reprint edition (January 5, 2005)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0316155942
ISBN-13: 978-0316155946
Product Dimensions:
5.5 x 0.8 x 8.4 inches
Shipping Weight: 8.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
Average Customer Review:
4.3 out of 5 stars
83 customer reviews
Amazon Best Sellers Rank:
#86,259 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
Although this book lacks great detail, I was pleased with that. Too many times authors, in my opinion get bogged down in the minutiae. I was looking to read a book about her life, start to finish, the overall picture. That is exactly what I found in this book. There was very little political opinion expressed which I found to be delightful and a reason to give this book five stars. It must have been very difficult for the author to tell this story with such limited information but I felt she did a great job with what she had. There appear to be other books available that go into greater detail regarding the actual operation of the UGRR and I may read one of them later. But for now, I have a much better understanding of who she was, what she did, and the theatre she operated in. Fascinating as it was, I was at times so angry reading about slavery and wondering how we ever let it happen. This woman is a true American hero, flawed as any of us I am sure, but the author did not focus on that. Another reason I award it five stars. If you want to know who Harriet Tubman was, read this book.
In reading other books about the Civil War period, I kept running into very interesting bits about Harriet Tubman.I knew a little about her, primarily due to articles written when the Treasury announced it would put her on the $20 and decided to learn more about her.If her life was fiction, it would probably have to be toned down b/c it would be unbelievable.Tubman is a fascinating and certainly heroic individual. Clinton manages to do a good job creating a highly readable book despite frequent admissions that there is an awful lot that we don't know, due in part to the fact that Tubman remained illiterate her entire life.At the same time, Clinton seems a bit starstruck by her subject. I was curious enough about some of the material to research bits of it elsewhere and found that less flattering material (which Clinton had to have been aware of) was either played down or left out. Nothing big but it seemed she didn't want to write a single word that wasn't completely positive, and it was enough to leave me questioning the accuracy of the book.Still a good book and Tubman was clearly a person we should know more about.
If we want to understand the racial divide in our country today we need to have a clearer understanding of where it all began. The life of Harriet Tubman not only clarifies the racial issues of our day, but the gender issues as well. I dare say, there is no woman in our American history that has impacted the world around her and changed our history in the process, more than she did. This is a hard read...but worth every effort to finish it.
It is a must-read...providing tremendous insight into the life of this true American patriot and incredible human being! It is a book that thoroughly absorbed my attention, and one that I'm so grateful I read. Dr. Catherine Clinton, thank you.
Well written bio of Tubman. The author illuminates Harrietts relationship to the Seward family and many other prominent people of the age. Very interesting reading if you are interested in Abolitionists, the Civil War and the era of Emancipation.
I was truly amazed at how brave Harriet was in returning to the Deep South again and again to lead so many slaves to freedom. It was enlightening that she had become a ranking soldier, "General Tubman," that helped in the strategy of the raids. Her identity had to be kept secret for her safety, so her name didn't appear in any official records. It was not surprising, however, how our government had, many times, conveniently dismissed her claims for a retirement pension. After the bravery, the leading of the troops, the nursing of the soldiers, the endless serving the needs of the poor and displaced, and all of the praise and acclaim, she died a very poor, but not broken, hero.
Excellent read for anyone looking to get to know who Harriet Tubman was beyond what most people learn in elementary school. I wish there was more analysis of Tubman's political beliefs but still well worth the read for her life story and the history of the underground railroad.
Everyone who cares about the United States and the effect that slavery had on its development should read this book.Tubman's life and efforts on behalf of slaves and former slaves is of major importance.
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