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

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Part I: Daughter of Liberty -- 1 A Pen As Explosive As Gunpowder -- 2 Fires, Civil and Domestic -- 3 "Neither the pen nor the tongue of a lawyer" -- 4 The Patriots' Secret Pen -- 5 "No one has at stake a larger share of domestic felicity" -- 6 "Perhaps the whole land be involved in blood" -- Part II: Conscience of the Revolution -- 7 Reporter of Revolutionary Events -- 8 A Still Calm Within, Violent Concussions Without -- 9 "Ladies are the greatest politicians" -- 10 "The hand often shrunk back from the task" -- 11 "War has ever been unfriendly to virtue" -- Part III: The Patriot Historian -- 12 Views from Neponset Hill -- 13 Hope Is an Airy Queen -- 14 The Public Is a Monster Seldom Guided by Reason -- 15 "The fair fabric of a free, strong and national republic" -- 16 "Too federal to talk freely" -- Part IV: Penwoman to Posterity -- 17 "A sister's hand may wrest a female pen" -- 18 "Alas, humiliated America!" -- 19 A Sea Change in Party Politics -- 20 "In the spirit of friendship" -- 21 "Blessed are the peacemakers!" -- Acknowledgments -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- Credits.

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