Betsy Claypool more interesting than Betsy Ross

Less than a week after I take a shot at Betsy Ross and her "sewing achievement" (angering more than I expected) comes BETSY ROSS AND THE MAKING OF AMERICA, which was reviewed in the Times Sunday Book Review. 

Serendipity.

The review opens with this paragraph:

Most historians dismiss the story about Betsy Ross making the first American flag. Yet despite a century of debunking, the legend ­endures. Across the country, schoolchildren still cut out five-pointed stars using the pattern that...