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Book Club

Martha Washington Book

OUR NEXT BOOK SELECTION

Please enjoy this list curated by our Dames Bookclub.

The next book we have selected to read is 'Martha Washington: An American Life', by Patricia Brady
Details are posted on our Member Only Section

Martha Washington Book with ladies gathered around room

SUGGESTED READINGS


The First Congress - Hon. James Madison, George Washington
and a Group of Extraordinary Men Invented the Government,  Fergus M. Bordewich

A Perfect Union: Dolley Madison and the Creation of The
American Nation,   Catherine Allgor

Follow The River (F), James Alexander Thom

Martha Washington; An American Life, Patricia Brady

Mayflower Bastard, David Lindsay

Albion’s Seed: Four British Folkways in America, David Hackett Fischer

Women of the House: How a Colonial She Merchant Built a 
Mansion, a Fortune and a Dynasty,  Jean Zimmerman

The Island at the Center of the World; The Epic Story of Dutch 
Manhattan and the Forgotten Colony that Shaped America, Russell Shorto

The Widow Washington: The Life of Mary Washington,  Martha Saxton

The Quartet, Joseph Ellis

The Perils of Peace; America's Struggle for Survival After Yorktown, Thomas Fleming

American Jezebel: The Uncommon Life of Ann Hutchinson, Eve LaPlante

Founding Gardeners, Andrea Wulf

God, War & Providence, James A. Warren

The Pioneers, David McCullough

In Small Things Forgotten, James Deetz

Six Women of Salem - The Untold Story of the Accused and Their
 Accusers in the Salem Witch Trials, Marilyn K. Roach

Book of Ages; The Life and Opinions of Jane Franklin, Jill Lepore
     
Roger Williams and The Creation of the America Soul, John M. Barry

Scandal at Bizarre - Reputation and Rumor in Jefferson=s America, Cynthia A. Kierner

Unwise Passions - A True Story of a Remarkable Woman and the
First Great Scandal of 18th Century America, Adam Pell Crawford

Mayflower Lives; Pilgrims in a New World and the Early        
American Experience, Martyn Whittock

The Mayflower; Voyage, Community, War, Nathaniel Philbric

The MAYFLOWER: The Families, The Voyage and
The Founding of America, Rebecca Fraser

Alexander Hamilton,  Ron Chernow

Washington, a Life, Ron Chernow

George Washington’s Secret Six, Brian Kilmeade

A Midwife’s Tale - The Life of Martha Ballard Based On Her Diary, Laurel Thatcher Ulrich

The Seven Daughters of Eve, Brian Sykes

Love and Hate in Jamestown, David A. Price

The Land as God Made It: Jamestown and the Birth of America, James Horn

Jamestown: The Truth Revealed, William Kelso

The Devil Made Me Do It: Crime and Punishment in Early New England, Juliet Haines Mofford

The Last King of America, Andrew Roberts

Out Front the Following Sea, Leah Angstman

The Tory’s Wife, Cynthia A. Kierner

Liberty’s Exclas, Maya Jasanoff

America’s First Civil War,  H. W. Brands

The Sewing Girl’s Talk, John Wood Sweet

Hero of Two Worlds, Mike Duncan

The Island at the Center of the World:
The Epic Story of Dutch Manhattan and the
Forgotton Colory that Shaped America, Russel Shorto

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