Cokie Roberts is a journalist who is known for covering the political scene in Washington, DC. Her voice is familiar to many due to her commentaries on National Public Radio (NPR) and her years working for ABC News. She comes from a leading political family, the Boggs. Both her parents served as US Representatives from Louisiana, and her ancestry includes a number of prominent lawmakers reaching all the way back to the period of the Louisiana Purchase.
She has written a number of books with a political and/or historical focus, but this is the first for me. I found it to be an enlightening, lively account of some of the leading ladies of the Revolutionary Period, with special attention paid to Martha Washington and Abigail Adams. There has been so little attention paid to the women of the time, who generally stayed behind the scenes due to the conventions of society, that it is not easy to find a non-fictionalized account of their lives that is truly readable.
I enjoyed the audio book as read by the author, but I would have liked to have heard even more about the remarkable women who were the subject of her book. I will be researching and adding some biographies of them to my reading list soon.
