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005			20140325151308.0
008			131101s2014 nyu b 001 0beng
010			_a 2013030995
019			_a846551993
020			_a9780312571627 (hardback)
020			_a0312571623 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aBX4700.S4 _bB36 2014
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100	1		_aBarthel, Joan.
245	1	0	_aAmerican saint : _bthe life of Elizabeth Seton /
246	3	0	_aLife of Elizabeth Seaton
250			_aFirst edition.
264		1	_aNew York : _bThomas Dunne Books, _c2014.
300			_apages cm
336			_atext _2rdacontent
337			_aunmediated _2rdamedia
338			_avolume _2rdacarrier
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_a"In this riveting biography of Elizabeth Seton critically acclaimed and bestselling author Joan Barthel tells the mesmerizing story of a woman whose life featured wealth and poverty, passion and sorrow, love and loss. Elizabeth was born into a prominent New York City family in 1774. Her father was the chief health officer for the Port of New York and she lived down the block from Alexander Hamilton. She danced at George Washington's sixty-fifth Birthday Ball wearing cream slippers, monogrammed. Catholicism was illegal in New York when she was born; Catholic priests seen in the city were arrested, sometimes hung. When Elizabeth and her wealthy husband Will sailed to Italy in a doomed attempt to cure his tuberculosis, she and her family were quarantined in a damp dungeon. And when Elizabeth later became a Catholic, she was so scorned that people talked of burning down her house. American Saint is the inspiring story of a brave woman who forged the way for the other women who followed and who made a name for herself in a world entirely ruled by men. Elizabeth began the fight for women's rights in the church that is still being fought today, and the publication of her story could not be more timely. Maya Angelou has contributed the foreword"-- _cProvided by publisher.
600	1	0	_aSeton, Elizabeth Ann, _cSaint, _d1774-1821.
650		0	_aChristian saints _zUnited States _vBiography.
650		7	_aBIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Religious.
856	4	2	_3Cover image _uhttp://www.netread.com/jcusers2/bk1388/627/9780312571627/image/lgcover.9780312571627.jpg
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