Marie Marmo Mullaney

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Poor Richard’s Women: Deborah Read Franklin and the Other Women Behind the Founding Father

For lovers of biography, American history, and women’s studies. This is a terrific read: poignant, provocative, and probing.
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Madam: The Biography of Polly Adler, Icon of the Jazz Age

An engaging biography from start to finish, for general readers and academics alike.

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Cokie: A Life Well Lived

Although at times bordering on the hagiographic, this is a highly readable and immensely heartwarming biography that should appeal to general readers interested in women's history, contemporary politics, media, and political reporting.

In the Shadow of the Empress: The Defiant Lives of Maria Theresa, Mother of Marie Antoinette, and Her Daughters

While there are fascinating details here about royal childhoods, courtships, marriages, and extramarital love affairs, this meticulously researched collective biography is best for serious readers of 18th-century European politics and history.
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Susan, Linda, Nina & Cokie: The Extraordinary Story of the Founding Mothers of NPR

Readers interested in feminism, women’s history, and biography will be rewarded with a great story that deserves to be widely known.
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Midnight in Cairo: The Divas of Egypt’s Roaring 20s

An engaging social history that touches on issues of freedom and liberation, issues that continue to resonate today.

Recasting the Vote: How Women of Color Transformed the Suffrage Movement

An essential work; highly recommended for scholars of the period and general readers interested in women’s history.
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Daughter of the Boycott: Carrying on a Montgomery Family’s Civil Rights Legacy

A beautiful celebration of one family’s life of service and commitment to racial justice, this important book should be welcomed by both historians and general readers interested in American history, social change, and civil rights issues.
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Free Thinker: Sex, Suffrage, and the ExtraordinaryLife of Helen Hamilton Gardener

Based on archival sources and Gardener’s own voluminous writings, this highly readable book should provide plenty of new insight into the period and Gardener’s fascinating life for general readers, scholars, and aspiring political activists alike.
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