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My forthcoming book, Elizabeth Willing Powel: A Remarkable Woman at the Heart of the American Founding
is now available for preorder!
Elizabeth Willing Powel restores this remarkable woman to the social and political center of the American founding era. Powel challenged some of the nation’s leading political figures, famously questioning Benjamin Franklin about the government created by the 1787 Constitutional Convention and eliciting his response, “A republic, if you can keep it.”
Elizabeth Willing Powel’s story reframes the founding as forged not only by famous statesmen but also by women whose intelligence, business acumen, social connections, and political ambitions.
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