Liar temptress soldier spy book review5/29/2023 One of the only critiques I have of Abbott’s excellent book concerns her citations and her treatment of a few sources. This issue first caught my attention after reading Ashley Whitehead Luskey’s review in The Civil War Monitor: Neither reviewer suggests that Abbott’s approach renders the book unreadable as a work of popular history, but it does raise questions about how best to handle sources in a book that appears to fall somewhere between a scholarly study and historical fiction. Two reviewers, however, have questioned the author’s choices regarding citation. From all the reviews I’ve read this looks like a highly entertaining read, which should come as no surprise given the author’s success with previous books. The book tells the story of four women, who engaged in various acts of espionage during the Civil War. The question of how sources ought to be cited in a work of non-fiction history came up again this past week with the release of Karen Abbott’s new book, Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy: Four Women Undercover in the Civil War.
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