Inventing Loreta Velasquez
Confererate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrtity, and Con Artist
Will be published approx. on 30. September 2016
Book
Hardback
277 pages
978-0-8093-3522-0 (ISBN)
Description
This groundbreaking biography of Loreta Janeta Velasquez delves into the life of one of America's early celebrities. She claimed to have posed as a man to fight for the Confederacy, but this book reveals a startling reality that's even more implausible than the myths she created.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Carbondale
United States
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 231 mm
Width: 160 mm
Thickness: 33 mm
Weight
658 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-8093-3522-0 (9780809335220)
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Other editions
Additional editions
William C. Davis
Inventing Loreta Velasquez
Confederate Soldier Impersonator, Media Celebrity, and Con Artist
E-Book
10/2016
1st Edition
Southern Illinois University Press
€55.99
Available for download
Person
William C. Davis is the author or editor of more than fifty books on the Civil War. His work has received the Jefferson Davis Award, the Fletcher Pratt Award, the Jules Landry Award, and the Richard Nelson Current Award. He served as a professor of history at Virginia Tech and the executive director of the Virginia Center for Civil War Studies until his retirement in 2013."