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Madam Secretary by Stephanie Dray5/27/2023 ![]() ![]() To underscore the rejection of the traditional finery of monarchs, Lucy Knox chose a suit of brown broadcloth for George Washington to wear at his inauguration. After the war, these founding mothers wrote the rule book on etiquette for a young republic. Here are the women entrepreneurs, writers and activists of our fight for independence. “It’s safe to say that most of the men who wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution, fought the Revolution, and formed the government couldn’t have done it without the women.” So begins “Founding Mothers,” Cokie Roberts’s entertaining exploration of the lives of well-known patriots like Abigail Adams and Martha Washington, as well as more obscure women of valor such as Sybil Ludington, Deborah Sampson and Elizabeth Freeman. ![]() Photo: Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Founding Mothersġ. ![]()
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