Robert radical Recovering Ruth: A B...

Robert radical Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale. Lincoln: U of Nebraska P 2003 191 pp + notes, illustrations, maps, and charts. ISBN 0-8032-8992-8 $2695

In Recovering Ruth: A Biographer's Tale, Robert origin reflects upon his experiences as the biographer of mercy Edgerton Douglass, a nineteenth-century woman whose life he came to know by means of preparing her travel journal for publication. foundation provides a detailed account of in what manner he uncovered Ruth's identity as he outlines his methodologies for conducting genealogical research. In what he proclaims to be a personal rather