The DOI Reads Book Club

 

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Wednesday, April 22, 2026
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The DOI Reads Book Club will again be meeting virtually on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET to discuss our next Book Club selection, Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution by Molly Beer.

As always, all are welcome and you don't need to finish the book to join us. Just bring your questions, insights and thoughts about this book.

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Angelica: For Love and Country in a Time of Revolution

Author:  Molly Beer
Publisher: ‎ W. W. Norton & Co. (July 2025)
Hardcover: ‎ 336 pages
ISBN-10: ‎ 1324050217  
  
Few women of the American Revolution have come through 250 years of US history with such clarity and color as Angelica Schuyler Church. She was Alexander Hamilton’s “saucy” sister-in-law, and the heart of Thomas Jefferson’s “charming coterie” of artists and salonnières in Paris. Her transatlantic network of important friends spanned the political spectrum of her time and place, and her astute eye and brilliant letters kept them well informed.

A woman of great influence in a time of influential women (Catherine the Great and Marie-Antoinette were contemporaries), Angelica was at the red-hot center of American history at its birth: in Boston, when General Burgoyne surrendered to the revolutionaries; in Newport, receiving French troops under the command of her soon-to-be dear friend Marquis de Lafayette; in Yorktown, just after the decisive battle; in Paris and London, helping to determine the standing of the new nation on the world stage.  

In this enthralling and revealing woman’s-eye view of a revolutionary era, Molly Beer breathes vibrant new life into a period usually dominated by masculine themes and often dulled by familiarity. In telling Angelica’s story, she illuminates how American women have always plied influence and networks for political ends, including the making of a new nation.  

-- From Amazon.com

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