Author: Cokie Roberts

Review by: Michael Manely , family law attorney at The Manely Firm P.C. Michael Manely As it turns out, women of the American Revolution were not wallflowers. In fact, as “Founding Mothers” shows, without their overwhelming and relentless effort, bravery and persistence, the overthrow of British rule would not have been successful.

I wanted to read this book because history, as taught by my schools, was almost always about well-to-do white men who apparently created the bounty of the earth from nothing, tamed the world with their earnest, excellent ideas and eloquence (or overwhelming fire power when rhetoric […]

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