I'm a bit of a feminist, OK, a lot of a feminist. I also love social history. I don't care for the major wars and great poets of time, but the every day lives of normal people. Cokie made it very clear in the preface that this book is not about average women; it's about the ladies behind the men we all learned about as kids. I'm still intrigued though. It will be new insight into the years when America was just a baby.
So far, chapter 1 is about Abigail Adams and Mary Pinckney, who was the wife of U.S. Ambassador to France Charles Pinckney during Adams' presidency. I haven't learned a whole lot in the first 30 minutes.