Cokie Roberts, Author . Morrow $24.95 (384p) ISBN 978-0-06-009025-8
ABC News political commentator and NPR news analyst Roberts didn't intend this as a general history of women's lives in early America—she just wanted to collect some great "stories of the women who influenced the Founding Fathers.&#
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Cokie Roberts, Author Morrow $26.95 (481p) ISBN 978-0-06-078234-4
In this entertaining follow-up to 2004's Founding Mothers: The Women who Raised Our Nation, Roberts recounts the lives of first ladies, and their associates, from the John and Abigail Adams White House up through Monroe's 1818-1825 term. Though it's
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Cokie Roberts, illus. by Diane Goode. Harper, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-078002-9
They wrote letters and literature, kept the home fires burning, ran the family farm, rallied support for the troops, and even fought alongside them. The women of the American Revolution get sprightly, affectionate tributes from Roberts, who covered...
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Cokie Roberts, illus. by Diane Goode. HarperCollins, $17.99 (40p) ISBN 978-0-06-078005-0
Roberts and Goode (Founding Mothers) again adapt one of Roberts’s adult bestsellers into a picture book. Thorough research into letters, diaries, and other writings underpins brief biographies of 10 women who made positive impacts in the United...
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Tonya Bolden, illus. by Eric Velasquez. HarperCollins, $21.99 (128p) ISBN 978-0-06-257204-2
“Listen then to the people who created this country, kept it from disunion, and brought more of its citizens into the fullness of their rights,” invites the foreword (by late journalist Cokie Roberts) of this inspirational collection of speeches....
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