 Ladies
of Liberty
By Cokie Roberts
William Morrow
Retail price $26.95
Amazon price: $17.99
Book 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primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings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.
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Women's history titles always excite me. Sometimes it is
hard to research the contributions of women in history. Cokie
Roberts does an excellent job in telling the stories of women who
helped to shape our nation. In this book you will find chapters on
Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley
Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton,
Thodosia Burr, Sacajawea, and many more.
The book is informative and very well written. Roberts gets
much of her information from letters written by the women themselves
that have survived to this day.
Even if you don't normally like the topic of history, I feel you
will enjoy Ladies of Liberty. The author writes in a very relaxed
style and is easy to read. I think both men and women will
enjoy this book.
~Reviewed by Patricia Chadwick
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