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Mary Beth Norton is Mary Donlon Alger Professor of American History at Cornell University. She is the author of The British-Americans: The Loyalist Exiles in England, 1774--1789 (1972); Liberty's Daughters: The Revolutionary Experience of American Women, 1750--1800 (1980); Founding Mothers & Fathers: Gendered Power and the Forming of American Society (1996), which was a Pulitzer Prize finalist; and (with five others) A People and a Nation (6th ed., 2001). She has also edited several works on women's history and served as the general editor of The AHA Guide to Historical Literature (3rd ed., 1995).
Stunning. . . . A rabble-rouser of a book. - The New York Times Book Review<br><br> Fresh and persuasively argued. . . . Norton builds her case with the precision of a criminal prosecutor. . . . Her conclusion is forceful. - Boston Globe<br><br> The freshest, and most detailed account . . . that we have had in a decade. . . . A landmark achievement. It may well herald a new golden age in American history. - Los Angeles Times
