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Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
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Binding: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.40922
EAN: 9780060782344
ISBN: 006078234X
Label: William Morrow
Manufacturer: William Morrow
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 512
Publication Date: April 08, 2008
Publisher: William Morrow
Release Date: April 08, 2008
Studio: William Morrow
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Editorial Review: 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storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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.
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Rating:  - Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
I am just now reading this book. Although I don't usually like historical books, this one is very interesting. We don't get enough on women in our country, what they've done or tried to do. I recommend this book.
Rating:  - Rich! A great read!
This is a great read, in large part because the story is told from a perspective that was ignored in the history classes I was exposed to. The women who lived during this period in our country's history were historians in their own right - recording history, and their thoughts on those events, in letters that luckily survived to this day. Cokie Roberts has a writing style that is easy and engaging and keeps the reader wanting to know more. This is the most enjoyable book devoted to history that ... Read More
Rating:  - Ladies of Liberty
The book itself was very well written and infomative. It gave a lot of due credit to first ladies that the public has never known. However, you sent me two copies--and charged me for both--when I had ordered only one. When I tried to follow your directions about returning the extra copy, I got into an e-mail tangle and gave up. However, the book has been mailed back to you. Hopefully, the matter has been properly taken care of and the extra cost has been refunded.
Rating: - Excellent
Cokie Roberts is a wonderful writer, always showing insights in her characters that make them more real than history paints them. Her writing moves right along and holds your interest. I always look forward to her books.
Rating: - Not As God As The First
Cokie Roberts is a brilliant person. This book, however, appears to have been written with the leftovers from her previous work, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation, which is vastly better.
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