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Title	:	Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
Author	:	Cokie Roberts
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 15th 2005 by Harper Perennial (first published April 13th 2004)
Categories	:	History. Nonfiction. Biography. North American Hi.... American History. Historical

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From #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts comes New York Times bestseller Founding Mothers, an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families–and their country–proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. #1 New York Times bestselling author Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favoured recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed and Martha Washington–proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.

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ISBN:	006009026X (ISBN13: 9780060090265)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Martha Washington, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catharine Littlefield Greene, Esther de Berdt

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This book was on my to read list for quite some time, but I always felt that I ought to get a better grounding in the founding fathers, ie the colonial, Revolutionary, and Constitutional period, before I took on the founding mothers. So after my recent reads of The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin and A People's History of the Supreme Court, the latter of which gave a thorough picture of the Constitutional Congress, as well as a re-read of Johnny Tremain with my kids and my middle sons

Roberts shows a light on all those women who play second fiddle to all those men in those history books and on those tv shows. Very readable. Very enjoyable. Mostly white women, but she does mention and tell the story of Elizabeth Freeman, who needs her own movie.

I am ashamed that it took me so long to get around to reading this book - it was given to me for Mother's Day in 2004. That's me looking sheepish :) Although I am a big fan of historical fiction, straight up history tends to make my eyes droopy - so I either really have to be motivated or have some sort of external force urging me onward. Since my online book club chose this for our book of the month, I knew this was the time to remove the dust jacket and sink my teeth into some American

Sadly, Ms. Roberts' Founding Mothers is pretty boring. I generally like her work, but I think only an occasional American history reader would find new material here. Ms. Roberts has good subjects for her biographies, but she doesn't have enough material for most of the characters. A majority on the content seemed like a dry middle grade history. I don't suggest this book, but Capital Dames by the same author is much stronger and more entertaining.

I have been listening to this book on CD and it has some good stories of the early women who founded the country. The catchy, but all the women in the book weren't necessarily mothers of patriots - many were wives. Good stories of how the women ran the farm, gave birth to children, and fended off the enemy at home while the men were of talking in Philadelphia. A good quote from the book that said that if the British beat the army, they would still have the women to tangle with! Good stories of

The author includes a lot of great content, the snippets of information we have about many women in the early, tumultuous days of the American republic. However, I don't care for the organization or the frequent commentary from the author. It was hard to follow the characters and what they did in the larger framework of the war chronology (as opposed to what I would have preferred, a small story about a woman and what she did throughout the war, then the next, and the next. Spreading them out

It is clear that Cokie Roberts (1) knows these women and their stories well and (2) likes them. It is interesting to read about the women who did so much during the War for Independence and the early days of the United States of America. Ms. Roberts has a firm grasp of history and the place of these early women in it.Having said that, I found this a hard book to read. I suppose every writer of history faces a decision about how to present the material. I was hoping for a set of mini-biographies