First of Hearts

"Congress bumbles on. Everybody laughs at its assumed spasms of virtue, no one is deceived by any reform pretenses". Clover Adams''s political commentary in 1883 could serve as the lead of a legislative story today- that''s one reason why it''s so much fun to read her mail. ...What''s striking here is how open the political scene was to women. Historians tend to insist that women occupied no polit...