The Hostess

Dolley Madison

She saved Washington's portrait as the city burned—and made a capital into a nation.

She saved Washington's portrait as the city burned—and made a capital into a nation. Dolley Madison turns the art of hospitality into a political weapon, knitting a fractious young republic together one dinner at a time. A Founding Women novella.

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