Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation » (Unabridged, 4 cassettes, 6 hrs.)

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and a senior news analyst for National Public Radio. Along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, she writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers across the country by United Media. She is the author of We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, and, with her husband, From This Day Forward. She lives in Bethesda, Maryland.

Cokie Roberts' #1 New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers Daughters examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history.

Now Cokie returns with Founding Mothers, an intimate look at the passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families and country proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Pinckney, Mary Bartlett and Martha Washington - proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.

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USA Today - Maria Fish

Exploiting a wide range of historical evidence from military records to recipes, private correspondence, pamphlets and songs, Roberts succeeds in presenting something entirely new on a topic seemingly otherwise exhausted … Founding Mothers is a welcome addition to American Revolution biography, which is saturated by the lives of the Founding Fathers. It fills in blanks and adds substance, detail and dimension to what until now has seemed a strangely distant and utterly masculine mythology.