Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
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Author: Cokie RobertsEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2009-03-24
ISBN: 0060782358
Number of pages: 512
Publisher: Harper Perennial
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Book Review: The "Better Half" of History
Summary: 5 Stars
What's in the history textbooks is something less than half the story. To read the words of the American Founding Fathers one would think they lived on the giddy heights of lofty philosophy. One gets a more complete and human view of them from their wives, daughters and mothers.
In addition to putting human flesh on the marble statues, this book fleshes out our understanding of how woman shaped this country even when lacking the right to vote. Women were long the social conscience of America, creating organizations to help the destitute, shelter orphans and abolish slavery. These experiences lead women to agitate for direct political power. What I found amazing was that many of these female-sponsored organizations required the treasurer to be an unmarried woman. Due to the draconian property laws of the era, husbands had access to all a wife's assets and it seemed the men had no scruples regarding stealing this money also!
I read with outrage and a certain sense of recognition about how one session of Congress ended and all the politicians returned home, leaving behind dozens of illegitimate children which the good women of Washington had to find space for in an orphanage. It seems even then Congress was fond of unfunded mandates!
Dolley Madison is widely admired for her bravery in sticking by the White House as the British advanced on Washington and for her rescue of the portrait of George Washington. However, this book shows her in all her glory as a Washington hostess when it was observed of her that she had done such a good job she should be returned for a second term.
And I fell in love with Louisa Johnson Adams, wife to John Q. Adams. While he engaged in various diplomatic missions around Europe, she had to pack up herself and her small child and get from Moscow to Paris to rejoin him. Napoleon had just escaped from Elba; all Europe was in a ferment with armies and brigands infesting the roads. Louisa's adventures and resource read like the enthralling chapters of a historical romance.
Aaron Burr, the black sheep among the Founding Fathers, is redeemed because he had a daughter he doted on and took pains to educate. The book leaves us with the mystery of her disappearance...this and the stories of many other women set this sprightly history apart. The best history goes beyond "the lives of great men" to give us the sense of how ordinary people lived; here is the common wisdom of the era just after the American Revolution, along with the gossip, the personalities, the sorrows and joys. Highly recommended for history buffs and those idiots who argue "Why are there no great women
Summary of Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation
In this eye-opening companion volume to her acclaimed history Founding Mothers, number-one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator Cokie Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Recounted with insight and humor, and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, many of them previously unpublished, here are the fascinating and inspiring true stories of first ladies and freethinkers, educators and explorers. Featuring an exceptional group of women?including Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison, Rebecca Gratz, Louise Livingston, Sacagawea, and others?Ladies of Liberty sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, finally giving these extraordinary ladies the recognition they so greatly deserve.
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