As was noted of this work in a starred review in Publishers Weekly: "In this gripping book, Abbott tells the moving and fascinating story of four women who played unconventional roles during the Civil War: Belle Boyd, a boisterous flirt and Confederate spy Rose Greenhow, a seductive widow also spying for the South Emma Edmondson, who disguised herself as a man and enlisted in the Union army and Elizabeth Van Lew, a wealthy spinster in the Confederate capital with Unionist loyalties. The book is "Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War," and it's just out from Harper. On this presentation of ST, we welcome Karen Abbott, the bestselling author of "Sin in the Second City" and other books, whom USA Today has called a "pioneer of sizzle history." Abbott joins us by phone to talk about her newest volume, which tells the strange-but-true stories of four different women who risked everything to become spies, combatants, or informants during the Civil War.
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