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Title: Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts ISBN: 0-06-009025-1 Publisher: William Morrow Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.85 (13 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Founding Mothers
Comment: Cokie Roberts isn't showing us anything we men didn't already know. Behind every good man is even a better woman in most cases. I think we all know how much our women can change a way a man can think. But all in all Cokie tells the story about some of these women and reminds us all just what part our women have played through the years and every day of all of our lives. Its a good read, just don't tell your wife about it, the stories might go to her head. Larry Hobson- Author-"The Day Of The Rose"
Rating: 5
Summary: History Behind Our History
Comment: The conceit of this book--historical revisionism, driven not by ideology or politics, but by the domestic drama behind the actual events--is fascinating. Obviously, wars are fought by men and history (mostly) written by men, so this look inside the personal lives of the Founders of the republic and framers of the Constitution adds a revealing layer of complexity. (Just what was it like to be Ben Franklin's wife?) The impact of family on war, revolution and political intrigue has been utterly neglected. Not a heavy, Caro/McCullough type of history, but readable, well-written and balanced. I am also enjoying "I Sleep At Red Lights: A True Story of Life After Triplets," by Bruce Stockler, a reverse history of marriage and parenthood and career, written by a sleep-deprived and insightful man.
Rating: 5
Summary: Remembering "The Ladies"
Comment: Cokie Roberts thoroughly enjoyed writing this tribute to the wives of the men who signed the Declaration of Independence in 1776, and other prominent women of the era . The book begins in the early 1700's. It ends when the presidency of George Washington ends and John Adams is elected, in 1797.
I appreciated the notes and the cast of characters including names of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, the signers of the Constitution, the players in the new government, women writers of the period, and famous soldiers and statesmen during the revolutionary war, which are included in the back of the book.
Excerpts from many letters are included and are so beautifully written.Let your imagination wander as you read vivid accounts of the sacrifices made by families who wanted independence from England - the yellow fever and smallpox epidemics, the building of a military, the contributions made by exceptional women such as Abigail Adams and Martha Washington, as well as Phillis Wheatley, Mercy Otis Warren, Sarah Livingston Jay, and many others portrayed here.
Cokie writes as if she is having fun telling us so many interesting facts about the "founding families", and I had fun learning more about them and relearning early American history.
The true story of Benedict Arnold and his wife was enlightening as well as the character of Alexander Hamilton.
You will enjoy learning about influential women in this book.
Cokie has inserted some of her own remarks to lighten up the picture, and she carefully recounts the contributions of each state as they represented the new government at that time; the
conflicts with the British,the alliance with the French, as well as inevitable partisan politics.
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Title: We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts ISBN: 0688169678 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 April, 2000 List Price(USD): $11.00 |
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Title: Plan of Attack by Bob Woodward ISBN: 074325547X Publisher: Simon & Schuster Pub. Date: 19 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $28.00 |
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Title: Eats, Shoots & Leaves: The Zero Tolerance Approach to Punctuation by Lynne Truss ISBN: 1592400876 Publisher: Gotham Books Pub. Date: 12 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $17.50 |
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Title: Big Russ and Me: Father and Son--Lessons of Life by Tim Russert ISBN: 1401352081 Publisher: Miramax Pub. Date: 10 May, 2004 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: Posterity : Letters of Great Americans to Their Children by DORIE MCCULLOUGH LAWSON ISBN: 038550330X Publisher: Doubleday Pub. Date: 13 April, 2004 List Price(USD): $24.95 |
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