By William G., Jr. Hyland
Hyland brings us a conflicted and sincere Martha Jefferson, who persisted the Revolution as valiantly as a few men—defending her very doorstep from raiding British troops—and presided over the family lifetime of the Jeffersons’ “little mountain,” Monticello, in the course of her husband’s lengthy absences and historical upward push to energy. A revealing and insightful examine a frequently disregarded American girl, this publication offers a special and formerly unexplored knowing of America’s progressive period, and the boys and ladies upon whose bravery, expertise, and get to the bottom of our country was once based.
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