Karen Abbott





Karen Abbott

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Karen Abbott is the author of Sin in the Second City and American Rose, both New York Times bestsellers. She is a featured contributor to Smithsonian magazine’s history blog, Past Imperfect, and also writes for Disunion, the New York Times series about the Civil War. A native of Philadelphia, where she worked as a journalist, she now lives in New York City with her husband and two African Grey parrots, Poe and Dexter. She’s at work on her next book, a true story of four daring (and not entirely scrupulous) Civil War spies who risked everything for their cause.

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Billboard about the Sodder children, who went missing on Christmas Eve, 1945. From www.appalachianhistory.net. Ida Wood never had any intention of renewing contact with the outside world, but on March 5, 1931, death made it necessary. At four o’clock that afternoon, the 93-year-old did something she hadn’t done in 24 years of living at [...] Read more of this blog post »
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Average rating: 3.51 · 7,238 ratings · 1,258 reviews · 38 distinct works · Similar authors
Sin in the Second City: Mad...
3.54 of 5 stars 3.54 avg rating — 5,859 ratings — published 2007 — 15 editions
American Rose: A Nation Lai...
3.4 of 5 stars 3.40 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 2010 — 8 editions
A Matter of Trust
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2003
A Father for Daisy
5.0 of 5 stars 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 4 editions
A Most Rebellious Debutante
4.0 of 5 stars 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2010 — 2 editions
Faith for the Future
3.0 of 5 stars 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2007
Love Is Blind
1.0 of 5 stars 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002
Take Hold of Tomorrow
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — expected publication 2013
An Unsuitable Alliance
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2006
The Turning Tide
0.0 of 5 stars 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
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“A Republican is a man who wants you to go t'church every Sunday. A Democrat says if a man wants to have a glass of beer, he can have it.”
Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

“An amusing city, Chicago, any way you look at it. I'm afraid we are in for the time of our lives.”
Karen Abbott, Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul

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