In FOUNDING MOTHERS Roberts paid homage to the women who helped establish our nation. In LADIES OF LIBERTY she continues to shed light on remarkable women, but focuses on what they have done to help define the country during the second half of the founding era. Picking up where she left off in her previous book, Roberts examines a totally new set of figures and what these amazing women did to ensure the preservation of the nation and its eventual rise to greatness. LADIES OF LIBERTY will cover the period from 1776 to 1824, which marked the end of the founding era. There is a host of enigmatic women including a profile of first lady Abigail Adams whose tenure in the white house makes Hillary Clinton’s look timid. It will also cover Dolley Madison’s bravery and triumph in DC during war and peace. Peppered with entertaining early DC gossip this second installment captures the great shift that occurred in American history as the country continued to move West and South with the Louisiana Purchase and the birth of the multi-cultural nation. These women bravely faced the challenges of the time but saw a great need to become reformers and advocates for education, orphanages and abolition.In her usual fashion, Cokie Roberts is able to bring to life a book that is both entertaining and educational. She captures the American spirit while shedding new insights on the women who have helped make the country what it is today.

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and serves as senior news analyst for National Public Radio. From 1996 to 2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program, This Week. In addition to broadcasting, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Robertses are also contributing editors to USA Magazine, and together they wrote From This Day Forward, an account of their more than thirty-five-year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto the New York Times bestseller list, following a six-month run on the list by Cokie Roberts's other book, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters. She is the mother of two and grandmother of four.