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Alexis Coe

Biography

Alexis Coe

Alexis Coe is the award-winning author of ALICE + FREDA FOREVER: A Murder in Memphis (soon to be a major motion picture). Coe has frequently appeared on CNN and the History Channel, and has contributed to The New York Times, The New Yorker and many other publications. She is a host of Audible’s "Presidents Are People Too!" and "No Man’s Land." Coe holds a graduate degree in American history and was a research curator at the New York Public Library. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

Alexis Coe

Books by Alexis Coe

by Alexis Coe - Biography, History, Nonfiction, Politics

Young George Washington was raised by a struggling single mother, demanded military promotions, caused an international incident and never backed down. But after he married Martha, everything changed. He took up arms against the British only when there was no other way, though he lost more battles than he won. After an unlikely victory in the Revolutionary War cast him as the nation's hero, he was desperate to retire, but the founders pressured him into the presidency --- twice. When he returned to his plantation upon his retirement, the man who fought for liberty must confront his greatest hypocrisy --- what to do with the men, women and children he owns --- before he succumbs to death.