Bibliograph

Ladies of liberty, the women who shaped our nation, Cokie Roberts

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Ladies of liberty, the women who shaped our nation, Cokie Roberts

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (p. [403]-467) and index

resource.biographical

collective biography

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Ladies of liberty

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

218469079

Responsibility statement

Cokie Roberts

Sub title

the women who shaped our nation

Summary

Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others.--From publisher description

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