Rita Mae Brown brings Dolley Payne Todd Madison to life in this carefully researched work of historical fiction. I read it in when it was first published and loved it. I decided to read it again after discovering Dolley is a first cousin, many generations removed. And I loved it even more the second time around/5(80). Only in the pages of her diary—as imagined by novelist Rita Mae Brown—can Dolley fully reveal herself. And there we discover the real first lady—impulsive, courageous, and wise—as she faces her harshest trial: in , the United States is once more at war with mighty Britain, and her beloved James is the most hated man in America. Rita Mae Brown brings Dolley Payne Todd Madison to life in this carefully researched work of historical fiction. I read it in when it was first published and loved it. I decided to read it again after discovering Dolley is a first cousin, many generations removed. And I loved it even more the second time www.doorway.rus:
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This pallid historical novel explores Dolley Madison's tenure as first lady, focusing in particular on the year and conflict with the British. Brown (Venus Envy, , etc.) brings little of her characteristic humor to the tale, making Madison a virtuous bore. Third-person accounts of dinner parties and cabinet meetings are interspersed with selections from Madison's fictional diary, but. Only in the pages of her diary—as imagined by novelist Rita Mae Brown—can Dolley fully reveal herself. And there we discover the real first lady—impulsive, courageous, and wise—as she faces her harshest trial: in , the United States is once more at war with mighty Britain, and her beloved James is the most hated man in America. Rita Mae Brown brings Dolley Payne Todd Madison to life in this carefully researched work of historical fiction. I read it in when it was first published and loved it. I decided to read it again after discovering Dolley is a first cousin, many generations removed. And I loved it even more the second time around.
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