Features
- Cover Type: Hard Cover with 512 pages
- Published by: William Morrow April 8, 2008
- Written in: English
- ISBN 10 Number: 006078234X
- ISBN 13 Number: 978-0060782344
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Book Dimensions:
9.1 x 5.7 x 1.7 inches
- Weighs: 1.2 pounds
Product Description
In
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one
New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in
USA Today as a "custodian of time-honored values"—continues the story of early America's influential women with
Ladies of Liberty. In her "delightfully intimate and confiding" style (
Publishers Weekly), Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities.
Recounted with the insight and humor of an expert storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others. In a much-needed addition to the shelves of Founding Father literature, Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, giving these ladies of liberty the recognition they so greatly deserve.
About The Author
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson coanchored the weekly ABC interview program,
This Week.
In addition to broadcasting, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. Both are also contributing editors to
USA Weekend, and together they wrote
From This Day Forward, an account of their now more than forty-year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto the
New York Times bestseller list, following a six-month run on the list by Roberts's first book on women in American history,
We Are Our Mothers' Daughters. Roberts is also the author of the bestselling
Founding Mothers, the companion volume to
Ladies of Liberty. A mother of two and grandmother of six, she lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland.
Reader Reviews
I'm not a big reader of nonfiction, and when I saw the cover of this book it made me yawn. My wife really wanted me to read it though so I was forced to give it a try. I was familiar with Cokie Roberts as a Political commentator but not an author, so first let me say Cokie has an engaging writing style that brought the stories of these women of history to life. Cokie is a gifted story teller and these true stories about the Ladies of Liberty had me turning the pages faster then I imagined. The stories of Martha Jefferson, Dolly Madison, Abby Adams, Eliza Hamilton, and even Sacajawea fascinating and I was enlightened to learn of there accomplishments through many difficulties. We have all heard the stories of the founding fathers, but here is the story of the founding mothers. Along with Across the High Lonesome my favorite book so far of 2008! (and both books were recommend by my wife!).
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