Founding Mothers

Founding Mothers
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Total Pages : 690
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ISBN-10 : 0739443682
ISBN-13 : 9780739443682
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Book Synopsis Founding Mothers by : Cokie Roberts

Download or read book Founding Mothers written by Cokie Roberts and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 690 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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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