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Founding Mothers
Hardback
Main Details
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Founding Mothers
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| Authors and Contributors |
By (author) Cokie Roberts
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| Physical Properties |
| Format:Hardback | | Pages:384 | | Dimensions(mm): Height 244,Width 156 |
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| ISBN/Barcode |
9780060090258
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| Classifications | Dewey:B |
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| Audience | | Tertiary Education (US: College) | |
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Publishing Details |
| Publisher |
HarperCollins Publishers Inc
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| Imprint |
HarperCollins
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| Publication Date |
13 April 2004 |
| Publication Country |
United States
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Description
Explores the lives of women who helped shape the United States, profiling such key figures as Abigail Adams, Eliza Pinkney, Dolley Payne Madison, Deborah Read Franklin, and Catherine Littlefield Greene.
Author Biography
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She has won countless awards and in 2008 was named a "Living Legend" by the Library of Congress. She is the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothers' Daughters; Founding Mothers; Ladies of Liberty; and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah. She lives just outside of Washington, D.C.
Reviews"Roberts has uncovered hundreds of personal anecdotes and woven them together in a single, suspenseful narrative with great skill." -- Washington Post Book World
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