Sally Denton
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
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Description
In the 1850s, Jean Rio, a deeply spiritual widow, was moved by the promises of Mormon missionaries and set out from England for Utah. Traveling across the Atlantic by steamer, up the Mississippi by riverboat, and westward by wagon, Rio kept a detailed diary of her extraordinary journey.In Faith and Betrayal, Sally Denton, an award-winning journalist and Rios great-great-granddaughter, uses the long-lost diary to re-create Rios experience. While she...
Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
c2009
Language
English
Description
A portrait of the Broadway star and congresswoman covers her political achievements as a woman in male-dominated mid-twentieth-century arenas, her infamous rivalry with Richard Nixon, and her victimization by a McCarthyist smear campaign.