Cokie Roberts is the author and narrator of this audiobook featuring the lives of the women who were a part of the historical time of the Revolutionary War and the founding of our nation. The lives of women of the time were not nearly as well recorded as were the men of the times. Still, Ms. Roberts has been able to piece together through letters and other records of the time, what the lives of women were like. She includes stories about Martha Washington, Dolley Madison, Mrs. Benjamin Franklin, along with many other women whose names are not so well known. She tells of their struggles maintaining farms and businesses while their husbands fought in the war or were part of the Continental Congress writing the Declaration of Independence or later, the Constitution of the United States.
Cokie Roberts is a wonderful televions newswoman and an enjoyable writer. Her stories of these remarkable women are filled with humor and her interpretation of these women's point of view. In other hands, this topic might seem rather dull and tired, but her narration kept the book lively and entertaining. I am glad that I chose this in audiobook format.
Rating - 4 stars.
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