At the dawn of the Jackson administration, Anne
Royall, America’s first female journalist, wages a
personal war in print against evangelicals who she
felt were trying to subvert the U.S. Constitution and
turn America into a Christian nation.
They toppled her stagecoach, harassed her at her
Washington, D.C. home as she convalesced and
ultimately, in a bid to silence her, had her arrested.
Anne remained steadfast, surviving the ordeal with
her life – and her resolve to defend what she loved
about the new nation – intact.