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Poor Richard's Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father
By Stuart, Nancy Rubin
- ISBN
- 9780807011300
- Publisher
- Beacon
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Starred Review on January 1, 2022 | The Founders
Journalist Stuart's (Defiant Brides) new women's history is an engrossing look at the human side of Benjamin Franklin, one of the nation's best-known Founding Fathers. Franklin's image as a womanizer is fairly well established, but less familiar are the stories of the various women whom he loved, lived with, and courted throughout his life. Using a post-feminist lens that's critical of gender essentialism, Stuart rescues these women from obscurity, focus...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
