Writer’s Voice: Women of the Civil War

Author Karen Abbott talks about her book Liar, Temptress, Soldier, Spy, which tells the story of four courageous women of the Civil War who made history.  The program also revisits an earlier interview with Lois Leveen, author of The Secrets of Mary Bowser.  Ms. Bowser, an African American ex-slave, served as a Union spy inside the Confederate White House.