Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation

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Label

Ladies of liberty : the women who shaped our nation

Title remainder

the women who shaped our nation

Statement of responsibility

Cokie Roberts

Creator

• Roberts, Cokie

Subject

• Politicians' spouses -- United States -- Biography
• United States -- History -- 1815-1861 -- Biography
• United States -- History -- 1783-1815 -- Biography
• Women -- United States -- Biography
• Women -- United States -- History -- 19th century
• Women -- United States -- History -- 18th century

Genre

• Biography

Language

eng

Summary

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 Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society.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

Biography type

collective biography

Cataloging source

NVC

Dewey number

973.09/9

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

LC call number

E176

LC item number

.R634 2008

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography