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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 973 EAN: 9780060782351 ISBN: 0060782358 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 512 Publication Date: April 01, 2009 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: March 24, 2009 Studio: Harper Perennial Average Rating:
 Rating:  - Ladies of LibertyThis is an excellent review of history from women's viewpoints. The recearch was very well done and events factual. I felt as if I were reliving those times with the women who shaped them. Luisa Adams especially showed her mettle in very dificult situations as, of course, did Abigale and Dolley Madison! Thanks Cokie for bringing them to life for me. Rating:  - Two StarsI must be the only one who found Ladies of Liberty difficult to read. The ladies and their lives were very interesting or would have been but the way Cokie Roberts presented it. Jumping from one to another sometimes it would be on Abigail Adams and then jump without notice to another lady or it would go on several pages about a different set of ladies and then jump back to Abigail Adams which made it very hard for me to keep up let alone finish reading. It would have been easier and simpler ... Read More Rating:  - The lesser knowns are more interestingNaturally, these seeds of women's liberation were, in fact, the passionate, intelligent, issue-focused women that Cokie Roberts presents to us. The book is a little confusing in its intentions; I had expected these ladies that Ms. Roberts documents to be solely five of the first first ladies of the United States (or in the case of Thomas Jefferson, key women of his family). And the chapter headings identify these rather well-known women: Abigail Adams, Elizabeth Patterson Bonaparte, Dolley Madison, Rosalie ... Read More Rating: - History jumps off the pageNow I know why high school American History classes were such a snore. Up until now, history books have largely been written by men about only the men who founded our proud nation. Abbreviated, often sanitized versions of how events came to pass seem created to portray the good guys and the bad guys in ways that prove who was right or wrong. They were often dull and statistical, sweeping any nuance or thrills tidily under the rug. One could not finish the course without knowing that Martha Washington ... Read More Rating: - Ladys of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation.This book gave me an amazing incite into how much women have always been involved in the political process. In today's world it is thought that the current wives of the Presidential candidates are forging new inroads, but it is apparent that women have always played a pivitol role in politics and in their husbands campaigns. Thank you Cokie! |
