written by Rosemarie Zagarri. She is an Associate Professor of History at George Mason

University. She received her Ph.D. from Yale University. Zagarri has also written

another book titled The Politics of Size: Representation in the United States, 1776-1850.

Along with this, she was the editor of David Humphreys' "Life of General Washington,"

b. A Woman's Dilemma: Mercy Otis Warren and the American Revolution is about a

women, Mercy Otis Warren, that is well educated, into politics, and loves to write

literature. The problem is that this is not acceptable behavior for women in this time.

Mercy's family was very rich, educated, and important in politics. Her brother James,

her dad, and her uncle educated as well as stood by her vast interest for politics even

though she was a woman. Mercy thought that in many ways, women should have part in

politics as well as men. When she had an opinion that she wanted to share, Mercy would

write poems or plays in the newspaper under anonymous. Towards the end, after writing

Otis Warren, but it talk about the wars, acts, treaties, and many other important

these events by discussing them during a story line. It was to me like I wasn't really even

Great Britain. Despite this, she actually did end up becoming quite good friends with

well known wife, Abagail Adams. She had originally intended to use Abagail to get to

One of the reasons that Mercy was able to get in so close with so many prominent

student understand the situations and events that went on. Without this book I think it

John's wife and they learned to depend on one another while their husbands were

throw me off. The author would talk about an event and then backtrack leading into the

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