Booked by HooksBookEvents: Monday, March 15, 2010
Book: Ladies of Liberty
Author: Cokie Roberts
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers, 2008
PUBLIC EVENT FEATURING STEVEN V. ROBERTS AND COKIE ROBERTS
Date: Monday, March 15, 2010
Time: 5:00 pm-7:00 pm
Location: GWU Marvin Center – Third Floor Grand Ballroom
800 21st Street, NW, Washington DC 20052
Cost: Free and open to the public. Click Here to RSVP!
Copies of From Every End of This Earth: 13 Families and the New Lives They Made in America and Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation will be available for purchase.
About the Author: Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson coanchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week.
In addition to broadcasting, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. Both are also contributing editors to USA Weekend, and together they wrote From This Day Forward, an account of their now more than forty-year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto the New York Times bestseller list, following a six-month run on the list by Roberts’s first book on women in American history, We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters. Roberts is also the author of the bestselling Founding Mothers, the companion volume to Ladies of Liberty. A mother of two and grandmother of six, she lives with her husband in Bethesda, Maryland.
About the Book: 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storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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.