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Dorothea Graham Jensen
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A Buss from Lafayette
Teens
Author Insight
Founding Father Red Heads
This is, of course, a most important point in my story, and I must confess where this idea came from. Years ago, I watched a Ron Chernow interview on C-Span. I can't remember if he was talking about his biography of Washington or that of Hamilton, but he said that many of the Founding Fathers had red or reddish hair. At that moment, I envisioned how important learning this fact would be for a reluctantly-redhaired teenaged girl living in post Revolution America. And voilà! Clara took shape in my imagination, and thus in my story.
Book Excerpt
A Buss from Lafayette
In a daze, I stretched up and pulled his peruke into place. “But how could a ‘pumpkin head’ have been the great hero of the Revolution?” I asked him.
“My dear young lady, did you not know? Nearly all of the ‘great heroes of the Revolution’ had hair that was red, or at least decidedly reddish! My dear friends, Alexander Hamilton and Thomas Jefferson; the father of my heart, General Washington; and, of course, moi! All had, as you said, la tête de citrouille—the ‘pumpkin head.’ Now, let me dry your tears.”
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