In Founding Mothers:Remembering the Ladies, Cokie Roberts introduced readers to the women behind the scenes of the American Revolution. Now, in Ladies of Liberty, Cokie continues to shed light on the remarkable women of our countrys history, those who laid the groundwork for our nation to grow and flourish.Covering the period of 1776 to 1824, Ladies of Liberty:The Women Who Shaped Our Nationbased on her adult title of the same namepays homage to a diverse group of ten new remarkable womeneducators, reformers, and explorers who shaped the United States. Drawing on personal correspondence and private journals, Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of these inspiring and dynamic women who created the framework for our current society and gives much-deserved recognition to this generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries. Roberts features a cast of courageous women that includes African American poet Lucy Terry Prince, Judith Sargent Murray, Isabella Graham, Sacagawea, Martha Jefferson Randolph, Elizabeth Bayley Seton, Louise DAvezac Livingston, Rebecca Gratz, Elizabeth Kortright Monroe, and Louisa Catherine Adams.

 

 

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There are 40 pages in this book. This book was published in 2016 by HarperCollins Publishers Inc .

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She has won countless awards and in 2008 was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah. Diane Goode is the illustrator of more than fifty beloved and critically acclaimed picture books, including the Caldecott Honor Book When I Was Young in the Mountains by Cynthia Rylant. Inspired by the handwritten letters of the Founding Mothers, she begins with their quill and sepia handwriting and spins out the line to re-create their images and the remarkable events of their lives for a new generation of young readers.