Ladies of liberty the women who shaped our nation
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 p...
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Item Description: | Downloadable audio file. Title from: Title details screen. Abridged. Duration: 10:01:48. |
| Playing Time: | 10:01:48 |
| Format: | Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 144148 KB). Mode of access: World Wide Web. |
| ISBN: | 9780061262647 0061262641 |
| Author Notes: | Cokie Roberts is the youngest daughter of the late ambassador and long-time Democratic Congresswoman from Louisiana Lindy Boggs and of the late Hale Boggs, also a Democratic Congressman from Louisiana who was Majority Leader of the House of Representatives and a member of the Warren Commission. Roberts graduated from Wellesley College in 1964, where she received a BA in Political Science. Roberts has won numerous awards, such as the Edward R. Murrow Award, the Everett McKinley Dirksen Award for coverage of Congress and a 1991 Emmy Award for her contribution to "Who is Ross Perot?" Cokie's books include We Are Our Mother's Daughters (1998), Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation (2004), Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation (2008), with Steven Roberts, From This Day Forward (2000), also with Steven Roberts, Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families (2011), and children's book Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies (2014). Robert's title, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868, is a 2015 New York Times bestseller. Cokie Roberts (Mary Martha Corinne Morrison Claiborne Boggs Roberts) passed away on September 17,2019 at the age of 75. (Bowker Author Biography) |
