Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts
Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts
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Founding Mothers

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Author: Cokie Roberts

Narrator: Cokie Roberts

Unabridged: 6 hr 43 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: HarperAudio

Published: 05/04/2004

Synopsis

Cokie Roberts's #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a ""custodian of time-honored values."" Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history. Now Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Mary Bartlett and Martha Washington -- proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the determination, creative insight and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Cokie Roberts proves beyond doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances, and carry on.

About Cokie Roberts

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.

Reviews

Goodreads review by Jean on September 28, 2019

With the death of Cokie Roberts this week, I checked to see if I had read all of her books. I discovered I had missed this one. The book is well written and researched. The problem is the lack of information on many of the women except for Abigail Adams. In this period women had no rights and few wer......more

Goodreads review by Corinne on February 06, 2016

I am ashamed that it took me so long to get around to reading this book - it was given to me for Mother's Day in 2004. That's me looking sheepish :) Although I am a big fan of historical fiction, straight up history tends to make my eyes droopy - so I either really have to be motivated or have some......more

Goodreads review by Karen on January 01, 2009

A very slow read for me. Although many of the "behind-the-scenes" stories surrounding the Founding Fathers and their women were very new and interesting to me, they were not very well organized. I kept having to scan back for dates and names, making it a tedious read at times. There was little flow......more

Goodreads review by Cathy on January 08, 2009

I wanted to like this book. My sister-in-law raved about it so I picked it up from the library and settled in. Perhaps it was me, but I found the stories a little bit muddled. It was so hard to keep track of which woman was being discussed because in the middle of one woman's life it would be like "......more

Goodreads review by Sherry on December 18, 2007

While the men were busy founding the nation, what were the women up to? Aside from Betsy Ross, I don't remember ever hearing about women as a child (By the way, some of Ross's descendants still insist that she did, in fact, sew that first flag.) My courses in American history provided me with a glim......more

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