Rosemarie Zagarri of George Mason University, author of a biography of Mercy Otis Warrren tells us about the Revolution's poet, who also wrote one of its first histories. We also discuss her book Revolutionary Backlash: Women and Politics in the Early American Republic , and the only authorized biography of George Washington, David Humphrey's Life of General Washington, and a fascinating project for which Rosemarie Zagarri is the lead historian, Mapping Early American Elections, which is a detailed and usable look at American politics from the first federal election until 1824.