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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780060090265 |
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Publisher Comments:
In Founding Mothers, New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings to light the stories of the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, sometimes even defending their very doorsteps from British occupation. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their husbands' businesses, ran the farms, and raised their children. These women who sacrificed for the fledgling nation spent months or even years apart from their husbands, at a time when letters were their only form of contact.
Drawing upon personal correspondence and private journals, Founding Mothers brings to life the everyday trials, extraordinary triumphs, and often surprising stories of Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Reed Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Martha Washington, and other patriotic and passionate women, each of whom played a role in raising our nation.This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.
Synopsis:
While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington–proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.
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About the Author
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.
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Luvbug5, July 14, 2008 (view all comments by Luvbug5)
I felt this book was very packed with information about how the founding mothers raised our nation but one of the hardests things for me about the book was the vocabulary in it ... even my parents didn't know some of the words meanings in it. Also, I felt the information about the charachters wasn't displayed in a way that would be easier to read
Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780060090265
- Subtitle:
- The Women Who Raised Our Nation
- Author:
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Harper Perennial
- Subject:
- Women
- Subject:
- Historical - U.S.
- Subject:
- United States - Revolutionary War
- Subject:
- Women's Studies - General
- Subject:
- Women's Studies
- Publication Date:
- March 2005
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Grade Level:
- General/trade
- Language:
- English
- Pages:
- 384
- Dimensions:
- 8.18x5.50x.95 in. .73 lbs.











