Betsy Ross and the Making of America, Marla R. Miller
Betsy Ross and the Making of America, Marla R. Miller
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Betsy Ross and the Making of America

Author: Marla R. Miller

Narrator: Dana Green

Unabridged: 19 hr 6 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 04/27/2010

Synopsis

Legend has it that as the American colonies hurtled toward independence, representatives of the Continental Congress, including George Washington, walked into Betsy Ross’s Philadelphia upholstery shop and commissioned the first flag of the Revolutionary nation. Although this story has long made Betsy Ross one of America’s most celebrated patriots, little had been known until now about the woman behind the flag.

Drawing on new sources and bringing a fresh, keen eye to the fabled creator of “the first flag,” Marla R. Miller thoroughly reconstructs the life behind the legend. This authoritative and thoughtful work provides a close look at the famous seamstress, and along the way delivers an epic depiction of the tensions that animated life in Revolutionary Philadelphia. At the same time, Miller casts new light on the lives of the hardworking artisan families who peopled the young nation and crafted its furniture, clothing, ships, and homes.

This history of the ordinary craftspeople of the Revolutionary War and their most famous representative will be the definitive volume for years to come.

About The Author

Marla R. Miller is an associate professor of history and the director of the public history program at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has won the Lerner-Scott Prize for the Best Dissertation in Women's History from the Organization of American Historians and the Walter Muir Whitehill Prize in Colonial History. In 2009, Miller was awarded the Patrick Henry Writing Fellowship from the C. V. Starr Center for the Study of the American Experience.Dana Green is a talented theater, film, and TV actor. Her books on tape narrations include Join the Club by Tina Rosenberg and Betsy Ross and the Making of America by Marla Miller.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Oldroses

Normally when I review a book, I first read the book and write my review, then I read reviews written by other people. In the case of Betsy Ross and the Making of America, my introduction to the book was via a review in the New York Times Book Review dated May 9, 2010. It was not a flattering review......more

Goodreads review by Marie

This is one tough book to crack. Instead of being focused on Betsy Ross, it is a portrait of Philadelphia and how the colonies reacted to British authority before and during the American Revolution of 1770's. For the first twenty years of Betsy's life, the book comprises of about 100 pages of the af......more

Goodreads review by Easyreader

Interesting book from the point of view of marketing: it is not about Betsy Ross, and it would have been more accurately titled, "An Economic History of a Philadelphia Luxury-Goods Market in the Revolutionary and Post-Revolutionary Period." No one would have bought that, of course. The book describe......more

Goodreads review by John

This is a historians biography...in that it is a biography written by a historian. This means that though it does serve as a biography of Betsy Ross, Miller has a larger goal. She basically uses what we can piece together about the story of Betsy Ross to tell the story of craftspeople in revolutiona......more

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