Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation, (Hardcover)

from Ciruelo

Ladies of Liberty by Cokie Roberts is a history of the United States as a new nation as witnessed by the women important to the politicians and statesmen of that era. It is a sequel to Roberts's previous history, Founding Mothers. Beginning with the death of George Washington, the book spans six ...

from mojomomma

Profiles of the wives and daughters of early American movers-and-shakers, told in their own words. Roberts forms her chapters around presidential wives Abigail Adams, Dolly Madison, and Louisa Adams but branches out to tell us of their contemporaries in Philadelphia and Washington DC.

from cyderry

Ladies of Liberty shows the history of the United States through the eyes of some the most noted women of the historic age. The book starts at the time of the death of George Washington and sweeps over six presidencies, beginning with John Adams's election in 1797 and ending with his son's John Q...

from debnance

The first book I read on my Kindle. I was so fascinated with my new toy that I missed some of the narrative. Ladies of Liberty takes up where Roberts' previous book on famous early American women leaves off. John Adams' wife continues to run the lives of both her husband, now a retired president,...

from ValerieAndBooks

“Remember the ladies”, Abigail Adams famously exhorted her husband. Cokie Roberts did just that, in Ladies of Liberty, history that spans the time period from when Abigail Adams was First Lady to when her daughter in Law Louisa Adams took that same role. In between, covered are women as diverse a...