Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
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| Rating | : | 4.31 (841 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060090251 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 384 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-10-15 |
| Language | : | English |
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Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Roberts proves beyond a 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.. Cokie Roberts's number one 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,
History Comes Alive rebelmomof2 This is a very fascinating book and I am glad that I was able to buy it not too long ago. I remember reading the back of the book at the bookstore and thinking, "I have to have it." That first thought hasn't changed.This book is written about women who influenced the leaders of the Revolutionary War, the first Continental Congress, the first Congress, first states and so on. These are women who have managed to keep the homefires burning, raising children and oftentimes, bur. D. Blankenship said LOW-KEYED, INFORMATIVE AND PLEASING READ. I rather enjoyed this low-keyed take on history. The reading was easy and it was fun and I did indeed learn some facts I was unaware of. This by no means is "hard core history" and I doubt if it was ment to be. The book of course take a look a the wives of some of our founding fathers and the role they played at the time. The book appears to be reasonably researched, as any book of the nature can be, and the author uses an easy and informative style. On the otherhand, I dou. Vera Cousins said Founding Mothers: the Women Who Raised our Nation, by Cokie Roberts.. Cokie Roberts writes well, and I thoroughly enjoyed this book. It brought many facts to light that I had not been aware of. It was a selection of our book club and some criticism was made of the organization, that it was hard to follow. However, it is arranged in chronological order, chapters covering major parts of history. While it may be difficult to keep the many characters in mind which appear again in later chapters, it is certainly a book worth reading. I highly reco
Roberts's style is delightfully intimate and confiding: on the debate over Mrs. From Publishers Weekly ABC News political commentator and NPR news analyst Roberts didn't intend this as a general history of women's lives in early America-she just wanted to collect some great "stories of the women who influenced the Founding Fathers." For while we know the names of at least some of these women (Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinckney), we know little about their roles in the Revolutionary War, the writing of the Constitution, or the politics of our early republic. not seen by PW. . In rough chronological order, Roberts introduces a variety