Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author . Beacon $27.95 (313p) ISBN 978-0-8070-5516-8
This commendable biography follows the life of New England patriot Mercy Otis Warren (1728–1814), the celebrated—and sometimes reviled—writer of poems, plays, history and satire. Drawing heavily on correspondence as well as Warren&#
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Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author . Harcourt $25 (393p) ISBN 978-0-15-101013-4
Stuart gives us the first modern biography of Maggie Fox, cofounder of spiritualism. After the two young Fox sisters, Maggie and Katy, claimed they had contacted spirits of the dead in 1848, a large religious movement coalesced around them. But that
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Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author Ten Speed Press $21.95 (448p) ISBN 978-0-89815-597-6
For the past 17 years, Rubin has taught a course called Social Living at Berkeley High School (BHS) in downtown Berkeley, Calif. Catering to students from a wide variety of socioeconomic and ethnic backgrounds, BHS is not your typical high school,...
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Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author St. Martin's Press $29.95 (468p) ISBN 978-0-312-05878-4
Isabella (1441-1504) was a master strategist, seizing the crown of Castile and, with husband Ferdinand of Aragon, ruling both her kingdom and his and winning a virtually nonstop succession of wars to preserve their strongholds. Freelance journalist...
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Nancy Rubin Stuart, Author Villard Books $27.5 (445p) ISBN 978-0-679-41347-9
This entrancing biography of Marjorie Merriweather Post (1887-1973)-socialite, businesswoman, Palm Beach, Fla., pacesetter, opulent Washington hostess, philanthropist-is full of high drama, gossip, scandal and international political intrigue. Her...
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Nancy Rubin Stuart. Beacon, $27.95 (224p) ISBN 978-0-8070-1130-0
Journalist Stuart (Defiant Brides) offers a fresh perspective on Benjamin Franklin in this revealing study of his relationships with women. Though some scholars have described Franklin’s common-law wife, Deborah Read Franklin, as “ignorant” and “prov
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