Ladies Of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

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In Founding Mothers: Remembering the Ladies, Cokie Roberts introduced readers to the women behind the scenes of the American Revolution. Now, in Ladies of Liberty, Cokie continues to shed light on the remarkable women of our country's history, those who laid the groundwork for our nation to grow and flourish. Covering the period of 1776 to 1824, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation-based on her adult title of the same name-pays homage to a diverse group of ten new remarkable women educators, reformers, and explorers who shaped the United States. Drawing on personal correspondence and private journals, Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of these inspiring and dynamic women who created the framework for our current society and gives much-deserved recognition to this generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries. Roberts features a cast of courageous women that includes African American poet Lucy Terry Prince, Judith Sargent Murray, Isabella Graham, Sacagawea, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Louise D'Avezac Livingston, Rebecca Gratz, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, and Louisa Catherine Adams.

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.

"This collection succeeds in emphasizing that many unsung women, "toiling to make America a more perfect place for all of its people," left their mark well before the suffrage movement." -- Publishers Weekly