Ladies Of Liberty

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with... (more)

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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.--From publisher description. (less)

Shares the stories of remarkable women who shaped American history between 1796 and 1828, including Dolley Madison, Theo... (more)

Shares the stories of remarkable women who shaped American history between 1796 and 1828, including Dolley Madison, Theodosia Burr, and Sacajawea. Drawing on personal correspondence and private journals, Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of these women who created the framework for our current society, a generation of reformers and visionaries. (less)

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with... (more)

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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.--From publisher description. (less)

In Founding mothers Roberts paid homage to the women who helped establish our nation. In Ladies of liberty she continues... (more)

In Founding mothers Roberts paid homage to the women who helped establish our nation. In Ladies of liberty she continues to shed light on remarkable women, but focuses on what they have done to help define the country during the second half of the founding era. Picking up where she left off in her previous book, Roberts examines a totally new set of figures and what these amazing women did to ensure the preservation of the nation and its eventual rise to greatness. Ladies of liberty will cover the period from 1776 to 1824, which marked the end of the founding era. There is a host of enigmatic women including a profile of first lady Abigail Adams whose tenure in the white house makes Hillary Clinton's look timid. It will also cover Dolley Madison's bravery and triumph in DC during war and peace. Peppered with entertaining early DC gossip this second installment captures the great shift that occurred in American history as the country continued to move West and South with the Louisiana Purchase and the birth of the multi-cultural nation. (less)