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Article: Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch.(Book review)
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- The Journal of Southern History
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- May 1, 2008
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Baroness of Hobcaw: The Life of Belle W. Baruch. By Mary E. Miller. (Columbia: University of South Carolina Press, c. 2006. Pp. [x], 212. $29.95, ISBN 978-1-57003-655-2.)
This book tells the story of Belle W. Baruch (1899-1964), the eldest child of Bernard M. Baruch, and her attachment to Hobcaw Barony, a huge estate on the Atlantic coast of South Carolina that served as the winter quarters for the wealthy Baruch family. Though she spent a great deal of time in New York and Europe, Belle Baruch was passionately devoted to this land. Athletic and outdoorsy, she hunted and fished and in the process developed a love for ecology and a lifelong interest in ...