Please join us in person as we read and discuss Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts, 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.

We’ll have some copies of the book at the library or you can order it from our online catalog.

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About the author: 

Cokie Roberts paved the way for women to be taken seriously in journalism at a time when the industry was dominated by men. With her insightful reporting, she won three Emmys; was inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame; was named one of American Women in Radio and Television’s 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting; and was honored as a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress.

Dedicated to covering the role of women in American history, she was also a historian and New York Times bestselling author who wrote books on the subject, including Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation and Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation — the latter which was turned into an original History Channel documentary Founding Mothers With Cokie Roberts in March 2005.

Fittingly, she herself was considered a founding mother of National Public Radio (NPR) — along with Nina Totenberg, Linda Wertheimer and Susan Stamberg — where she worked starting 1977. In 1988, she moved to ABC News, but still retained a part-time position at NPR, which she held until her death in 2019.

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