by Cokie Roberts
This book was just what was needed to pull me out of a reading slump. Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts is an account of the women who supported and helped shape the development of the democratic government in the United States. While I initially thought that this wo...
An interesting look into the daily lives of the women who helped found our nation. I enjoyed looking back into colonial times and finding out more about influential women in our history. This is a bit of a slow read, and the stories get a bit muddled at times, but you walk away learning a lot.
Abandoned about two chapters in. This book read like a textbook, only with limited headings or other organizational structure, I had a hard time keeping track of exactly whom I was reading about at any given time.
Having read numerous biographies on the men from this era, I was eager to read about the female side of things. I should have read something by a better writer with more knowledge on historical matters.In Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation Cokie Roberts often gets her facts slightly a...
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