The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren and the Founding of a Nation

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The sister of firebrand James “the Patriot” Otis, who first declared that “taxation without representation is tyranny,” the highly educated Mercy Otis Warren was the mother of five sons and the wife of James Warren, Speaker of the Massachusetts House and paymaster general of the Continental Army. In 1775 patriotic Mrs. Warren served [...]

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Ellis’s take on a “romantic and intellectual bond”

Pulitzer Prize winning historian Joseph J. Ellis will remain at Knopf for his next book, an untitled work on the romantic and intellectual bond between Abigail and John Adams. Ash Green bought world rights from John Taylor “Ike” Williams at Kneerim & Williams, and pub date is presently scheduled for spring 2010. Green, who announced [...]

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I Am Scout

This review will be hard for me to write, and therefore, possibly short. I read this while at a baseball game last night (I’m not a big fan of sports…) and I can’t tell you how much it touched me. I looked up into the endlessly dark sky, and I thought. I thought and thought [...]

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My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams

Some books grip you from the first sentence, and some take hold of your interest slowly but steadily. In an odd way, this book does both.
The foreword by Joseph J. Ellis takes you into John and Abigail’s world. He is a fabulous writer of books such as Founding Brothers and American Sphinx. But the question [...]

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The Trouble Begins at 8

Mark Twain was certainly an unusual man that kids will love learning about in the book The Trouble Begins at 8. The real trouble will be getting kids to pick up this book. It’s wonderfully well written, highly amusing, and accurate, but I doubt if kids will want to read about Mark Twain, since few [...]

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