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| Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation | 
 enlarge | Author: Cokie Roberts
Publisher: William Morrow
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 7794
Media: Hardcover
Edition: 1
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 512
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1.2
Dimensions (in): 9.1 x 5.7 x 1.7
ISBN: 006078234X
Dewey Decimal Number: 973.099
EAN: 9780060782344
ASIN: 006078234X
Publication Date: April 8, 2008
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 Good Gift Purchase June 8, 2008
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 The lesser knowns are more interesting July 2, 2008
Naturally, these seeds of women's liberation were, in fact, the passionate, intelligent, issue-focused women that Cokie Roberts presents to us. The book is a little confusing in its intentions; I had expected these ladies that Ms. Roberts documents to be solely five of the first first ladies of the United States (or in the case of Thomas Jefferson, key women of his family). And the chapter headings identify these rather well-known women: Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Dolley Madison, Rosalie Stier Calvert, and Elizabeth Monroe.
Roberts does spend a good deal of her conversation telling us what important roles these women played. [I particularly appreciate the writing of Abigail Adams, which Cokie's book serves to remind me of from my reading of John Adams.] But, in my humble opinion, the sadly-and-essentially unpromoted characteristic of Ladies of Liberty is its most important quality: its descriptions of several great 'ordinary' women of the early post-colonial period--some of whom achieved little notoriety and few of whom hobnobbed with big pols:
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Ladies of Liberty October 24, 2008
It is especially interesting to read this during an election year. How involved these early American women were in politics even though they could not yet vote! I listened to the audio book read by Cokie Roberts, the author.
Recommend to history buffs November 2, 2008
This book certainly adds to my knowledge and understanding of colonial history. Cokie Roberts has added a useful dimension by concentrating on the women married to our early presidents and showing us, through the language of their letters that they were as courageous, politically astute, willing to sacrifice, and devoted to promoting the strength of our new nation as their husbands. I'm thinking of Dolley Madison and Louisa Adams (married to John Quincy) here.Portraits of other women are valuable, also, such as the young woman pioneer who literally walked over the mountains in the early 1800s to a new home in the Midwest.
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