Works
The Family Behind the Girl Scouts of America: Lives of the Kinzie-Gordon Clan, 1750s-1950s
In 1912, Juliette “Daisy” Gordon Low launched what became one of the 20th century’s most successful organizations for girls, eclipsing the generations of male politicians, business leaders, and scoundrels who had brought prosperity and notoriety to her family. Her parents’ marriage united two leading American families–the Northern Kinzies and the Southern Gordons–and nearly ruptured because of the U.S. Civil War. Spanning 200 years across multiple continents and told for the first time in its entirety, the saga of the Kinzie-Gordon clan reflects the history of the United States itself through tragedy, triumph, and love.