Denise Kiernan presents Obstinate Daughters with American Public Square

Join Rainy Day Books and American Public Square at Unity Temple to celebrate Obstinate Daughters with author Denise Kiernan.
This event takes place in Unity Hall (downstairs at Unity Temple) and includes an author talk, along with an opportunity to get your book signed and personalized.
This event is made possible through our partners at American Public Square.
American Public Square builds stronger, more connected communities through civil discourse, engagement, and education. Through its in-person and virtual programming, APS offers fact-based insights and exposure to diverse and divergent perspectives - key steps toward mutual respect, compromise, and resolution. APS has been expanding and working toward its mission in Kansas City since its launch in October 2014.
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About the Book:
Obstinate Daughters: The Rebels, Writers, and Renegade Women Who Ignited the American Revolution
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls of Atomic City and The Last Castle comes a sweeping chronicle challenging the traditional mythology of the nation’s beginnings and championing the unsung women behind the American Revolution.
History has always celebrated the “Founding Fathers“—the sly but victorious tactics of Washington, the daring exploits of Lafayette, the grand ideas of Jefferson. Yet we rarely hear of the women who kept the colonies running and liberty alive. Obstinate Daughters finally rewrites the story of America’s birth by revealing the courageous, resourceful women whose actions shaped a nation. From the battlefields to the printing press, from the plantations to the pulpit, these women fought, spied, published, preached, farmed, organized. From the front lines to the home front, from the colonies to the frontier, these unsung heroines turned the tide.
In Obstinate Daughters, readers will meet women who armed themselves and took matters into their own hands to defend their town. A Cherokee leader who warned patriot settlements of looming attacks, risking the lives of her own people in the process. A British spy at the center of a plot to assassinate George Washington. Enslaved women who risked their lives while fighting a parallel battle for their own freedom, embodying the very ideals the revolution claimed to uphold. The only woman to have her name on the Declaration of Independence. And many more.