American Daughters - A Novel

Informationen zum Autor Piper Huguley is the author of By Her Own Design as well as the Home to Milford College and the Migrations of the Heart series. She is a multiple-time Golden Heart finalist. Piper blogs about the history behind her novels on her website. She lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with her husband and son. Klappentext "Portia Washington's father Booker T. Washington was formerly enslaved and spent his life championing the empowerment of Black Americans through his school, known popularly as Tuskegee Institute, as well as his political connections. Dedicated to her father's values, Portia contributed by teaching and performing spirituals and classical music. But a marriage to a controlling and jealous husband made fulfilling her dreams much more difficult. When Theodore Roosevelt assumed the presidency, his eldest daughter Alice Roosevelt joined him in the White House. To try to win her father's approval, she eagerly jumped in to help him succeed, but Alice's political savvy and nonconformist behavior alienated as well as intrigued his opponents and allies. ... Brought together in the wake of their fathers' friendship, these ... women helped each other struggle through marriages, pregnancies, and political upheaval, supporting each other throughout their lives"-- Zusammenfassung In the vein of America’s First Daughter, Piper Huguley’s historical novel delves into the remarkable friendship of Portia Washington and Alice Roosevelt, the daughters of educator Booker T.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Piper Huguley, Huguley Piper
• Verlag: William Morrow
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 06.03.2024
• EAN: 9780063273702
• ISBN: 978-0-06-327370-2
• Seiten: 368
• Abmessung: 135 mm x 203 mm x 21 mm
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur; 20th century, c 1900 to c 1999, FICTION: Women, FICTION: African American & Black / Women, LITERATURE: HISTORICAL, FICTION: African American & Black / Historical, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century, Modern and contemporary fiction: general and literary, Relating to African American / Black American people, FICTION: Historical / 20th Century / General