founding mothers

I am finishing Founding Mothers, a book my mom gave me on my last birthday (I was still in the hospital after having Meg). For some reason it didn't get the best reviews on Amazon, but I think it's really good and worth reading. It gives an idea of what it was like to live as a woman in the Revolutionary Era (hint: lots of babies) and how politically involved and influential the wives, mothers, and daughters of the founding fathers actually were. They didn't have a formal education but that didn't keep them from being extremely knowledgeable about current events and being able to articulate their ideas about how the U.S. should take shape.