Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our NationHarper Collins, 2004 M04 13 - 384 páginas Cokie Roberts's number one New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, examined the nature of women's roles throughout history and led USA Today to praise her as a "custodian of time-honored values." Her second bestseller, From This Day Forward, written with her husband, Steve Roberts, described American marriages throughout history, including the romance of John and Abigail Adams. Now Roberts returns with 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. Roberts brings us the women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps. While the men went off to war or to Congress, the women managed their businesses, raised their children, provided them with political advice, and made it possible for the men to do what they did. The behind-the-scenes influence of these women -- and their sometimes very public activities -- was intelligent and pervasive. Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored 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 never have survived. Social history at its best, Founding Mothers unveils the drive, determination, creative insight, and passion of the other patriots, the women who raised our nation. Roberts proves beyond a doubt that like every generation of American women that has followed, the founding mothers used the unique gifts of their gender -- courage, pluck, sadness, joy, energy, grace, sensitivity, and humor -- to do what women do best, put one foot in front of the other in remarkable circumstances and carry on. |
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... seen as just a considerate young woman performing her duty , with maybe a bit too much brain- power for her own good . George Lucas brought his English wife and daughters to South. CHAPTER CHAPTER Before 1775: The Road to Revolution.
... young woman was having none of it . Her fa- ther's attempts to marry her off to a man who could help pay the mortgage were completely and charmingly rebuffed in a letter writ- ten when she was eighteen . “ As you propose Mr. L. to me ...
... young entrepreneur explained , " more valuable than they are now - which you know they will be when we come to build fleets . " She was antic- ipating a lumber trade for American ships ! Mary's uncle , Charles Pinckney , teased the ...
... young en- trepreneur then managed to jettison the perfidious dye-maker sent by her father and hired his brother, who shipped some of the dye to England in 1744. “If it is as I hope we shall have a bounty from home,” Eliza wrote her ...
... young woman seems to have been truly saddened , it was a death that worked out well for her . It didn't take Charles Pinckney long to realize that having lost his wife , he didn't want to lose the spirited young Eliza as well . ( Think ...