The DOI Reads Book Club

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Wednesday, June 5, 2024
12:30 PM  |  (UTC-04:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)  |  1 hour

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The DOI Reads Book Club will again be meeting virtually on Wednesday, June 5, from 12:30 to 1:30 pm ET to discuss our next Book Club selection, Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation by Cokie Roberts.

As always, all are welcome and you don't need to finish the book to join us. Just bring your questions, insights and thoughts about this book.

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Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation
by Cokie Roberts
Publisher: ‎ William Morrow, 2004
Paperback: ‎ 359 pages
ISBN-10: ‎006009026X
ISBN-13: ‎9780060090265 

Legendary journalist Cokie Roberts' New York Times bestseller,  Founding Mothers, is an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families—and their country—proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

While much has been written about the men who signed the Declaration of Independence, battled the British, and framed the Constitution, the wives, mothers, sisters and daughters they left behind have been little noticed by history. Cokie Roberts brings us women who fought the Revolution as valiantly as the men, often defending their very doorsteps.

Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and even favored recipes, Roberts reveals the often surprising stories of these fascinating women, bringing to life the everyday trials and extraordinary triumphs of individuals like Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Deborah Read Franklin, Eliza Pinckney, Catherine Littlefield Green, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Martha Washington—proving that without our exemplary women, the new country might have never survived.

-- from Amazon

 

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