Ladies of Liberty CD: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
from: HarperAudio
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Dewey Decimal Number: 973.40922
EAN: 9780061227257
Format: Abridged, Audiobook
ISBN: 0061227250
Label: HarperAudio
Manufacturer: HarperAudio
Number Of Items: 8
Publication Date: April 01, 2008
Publisher: HarperAudio
Release Date: April 15, 2008
Sales Rank: 524021
Studio: HarperAudio
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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storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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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- Recommend to history buffsThis book certainly adds to my knowledge and understanding of colonial history. Cokie Roberts has ... Read More
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- Ladies of LibertyIt is especially interesting to read this during an election year. How involved these early American ... Read More
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- Ladies of LibertyThis is an excellent review of history from women's viewpoints. The recearch was very well done and events ... Read More
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- Two StarsI must be the only one who found Ladies of Liberty difficult to read. The ladies and their lives were very ... Read More
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- The lesser knowns are more interestingNaturally, these seeds of women's liberation were, in fact, the passionate, intelligent, issue-focused women ... Read More
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