Cokie Roberts

Ladies of Liberty (eBook, ePUB)

The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Recounted with insight and humor, and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, many of them previously unpublished, here are the fascinating and inspiring true stories of first ladies and freethinkers, educators and explorers. Featuring an exceptional group of womenincluding Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Rebecca Gratz, Louise Livingston, Sacagawea, and othersLadies of Liberty sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, finally giving these extraordinary ladies the recognition they so greatly deserve.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: HarperCollins
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Oktober 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780061737213
• Artikelnr.: 37981144

Autorenporträt

Cokie Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She won countless awards and in 2008 was named a Living Legend by the Library of Congress. She was the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah.