{"product_id":"a-belle-of-the-fifties-ada-sterling-9781519052650","title":"A Belle of the Fifties (Expanded, Annotated)","description":"She knew everyone and everyone knew her. A wealthy belle, married to prominent legislator, Clement Clay, she became one of Washington, D.C.'s great hostesses. This is as witty, gossipy, fashionable, and gritty a tale of antebellum Washington as you'll ever read.\u003cp\u003eAs her biographical researcher stated: \"I have come upon no record of any other woman of her time who has filled so powerful a place politically, whose belleship has been so long sustained, or whose magnetism and compelling fascinations have swayed others so universally as have those of Mrs. Clay-Clopton.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen the American Civil War came, however, she and her husband transferred their loyalty, services, and her \"belleship\" to the south. She describes in wonderful detail her life in Washington, the sorrows and privations of the war, and her husband's incarceration after the war during his life-threatening illness.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOnce the war was over, Virginia Clay was right back in the midst of high society in Washington. She took her plea for her husband's release personally to Secretary of War Stanton, Lieutenant-General Grant, and right into the office of President Andrew Johnson. Old northern friends embraced her warmly and she was astonished to be welcomed back into social circles.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ada Sterling,Virginia Clay-Clopton\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1519052650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781519052650\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/15\/2016\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 352\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.04lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.79d","brand":"Ada Sterling","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47520785498367,"sku":"9781519052650","price":13.1,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_b95a9d16-49c7-4796-b431-b1ef77677b5e.jpg?v=1762887055","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-belle-of-the-fifties-ada-sterling-9781519052650","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}