DOC Harriet Tubman and the Fight for Freedom: A Brief History with Documents (Bedford Series in History Culture (Paperback)) by Lois E. Horton in History

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A NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICEDeborah Mitford; Duchess of Devonshire; is the youngest of the famously witty brood that includes the writers Jessica and Nancy. Wait for Me! chronicles her remarkable life; from an eccentric but happy childhood roaming the Oxfordshire countryside; to tea with her sister Unity and Adolf Hitler in 1937; to her marriage to Andrew Cavendish; the second son of the Duke of Devonshire. Written with intense warmth; charm; and perception; Wait for Me! is a unique portrait of an age of tumult; splendor; and change. "Touching . . . moving . . . [and] compelling as a portrait of a vanishing world" (The Wall Street Journal).