Founding Radicals: Frances Wright and the Women Who Shaped a Young America

Meet the underappreciated yet fascinating early nineteenth-century women who dared to pursue America’s cherished values of liberty and justice for all

Founding Radicals tells the eye-opening stories of American radical speaker, newspaper editor, and philosopher Frances Wright along with a dozen other historically impactful women who were active in the first decades of the American republic. In a time shaped by the revolutionary fervor of the eighteenth century, filled with mavericks and fire...