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Cokie Roberts
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. Roberts also serves as commentator for National Public Radio. In her more than forty years in... show more

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. Roberts also serves as commentator for National Public Radio. In her more than forty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three Emmys. She has been inducted into the Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame, and was cited by the American Women in Radio and Television as one of the fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.Cokie Roberts has written several bestselling books, including the #1 New York Times bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters, Founding Mothers, and Ladies of Liberty. In addition she has written two books with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, that include From This Day Forward, an account of their now more than forty-five year marriage and other marriages in American history, which immediately went onto the New York Times bestseller list, and Our Haggadah: Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families. Cokie Roberts holds more than twenty honorary degrees, serves on the boards of several non-profit institutions and President Bush appointed her to his Commission on Service and Civic Participation. In 2008 the Library of Congress named her a "Living Legend," one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.
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Birth date: December 27, 1943
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Reading For The Heck Of It
Reading For The Heck Of It rated it 7 years ago
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...
Feminism in Cold Storage
Feminism in Cold Storage rated it 9 years ago
JLee22
JLee22 rated it 10 years ago
So I had a bunch of highlights made in the e-book, then I synced my Kindle by accident and lost the book because my loan period from the library had expired. Sigh... Anyway, this was a great book, although it backtracked a couple times to explain events from a new perspective and I found it confus...
Reading Through The World
Reading Through The World rated it 12 years ago
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.
An Excellent Library
An Excellent Library rated it 13 years ago
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.
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