Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

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FromNew York Timesbestselling authorCokie Roberts comesLadies of Libertya follow up to Founding Mothers in which she examines the lives and times of the women who have helped shape America.

In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed historyFounding Mothers, number-oneNew York Timesbestselling 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and humor, and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, many of them previously unpublished, here are the fascinating and inspiring true stories of first ladies and freethinkers, educators and explorers.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 women; including Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Rebecca Gratz, Louise Livingston, Sacagawea, and others; Ladies of Libertysheds 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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Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She has won countless awards and in 2008 was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. She is 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. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C.