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37 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Brief portraits of women from the period of the Revolution and early United States.
Presents an adaptation of the author's adult book that highlights an engaging cast of revolutionary founding mothers, including Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison.
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xxiii, 481 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Cokie Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation with this blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities. Drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources--many of them previously unpublished--Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork...
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x, 494 pages : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States. After the declaration of secession, many fascinating Southern women left the city, leaving their friends -- such as Adele Cutts Douglas and Elizabeth Blair Lee -- to grapple with questions of safety and sanitation as the capital was transformed...
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xv, 319 pages ; 21 cm
Language
English
Description
Roberts examines the nature of women's roles through the revealing lens of her personal experience. A superb collection of profiles and essays offering tremendous insight into the opportunities and challenges that women encounter today.
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