Meet Cokie Roberts

Join WWNO listeners on Thursday, May 15th, from 5:30-7:00 p.m. at the Hotel Monteleone in the French Quarter for a book reading and signing with Cokie Roberts. Cokie will read from her new book, Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation. Tickets for the event are available at $15 each, which includes a glass of wine. WWNO also has two member-packages available: at the $150 level, you will receive a full year of WWNO membership (including one WWNO MemberCard), plus two tickets to the event and one copy of the book; or, at the $500 level, you will receive two WWNO MemberCards, two tickets to the event, two copies of the book, and two invitations to a private meet and greet with Cokie following the reading and signing. Either package makes a unique and memorable Mother's Day gift. Click here to reserve your package today!

About the Book:
In Founding Mothers, Cokie Roberts paid homage to the heroic women whose patriotism and sacrifice helped create a new nation. Now the number one New York Times bestselling author and renowned political commentator—praised in USA Today as a "custodian of time-honored values"—continues the story of early America's influential women with Ladies of Liberty. In her "delightfully intimate and confiding" style (Publishers Weekly), Roberts presents a colorful blend of biographical portraits and behind-the-scenes vignettes chronicling women's public roles and private responsibilities.

Recounted with the insight and humor of an expert storyteller and drawing on personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources—many of them previously unpublished—Roberts brings to life the extraordinary accomplishments of women who laid the groundwork for a better society. Almost every quotation here is written by a woman, to a woman, or about a woman. From first ladies to freethinkers, educators to explorers, this exceptional group includes Abigail Adams, Margaret Bayard Smith, Martha Jefferson, Dolley Madison, Elizabeth Monroe, Louisa Catherine Adams, Eliza Hamilton, Theodosia Burr, Rebecca Gratz, Louisa Livingston, Rosalie Calvert, Sacajawea, and others. In a much-needed addition to the shelves of Founding Father literature, Roberts sheds new light on the generation of heroines, reformers, and visionaries who helped shape our nation, giving these ladies of liberty the recognition they so greatly deserve.

About the Author:
Cokie Roberts is a NPR Senior News Analyst, Political Analyst for ABC News, Bestselling Author, and Co-Achor, This Week with Sam Donaldson & Cokie Roberts, 1996 - 2002.

Ms. Roberts serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than ten years.Cokie Roberts has covered Congress, politics and public policy for the past fifteen years at ABC News. In addition to her responsibilities at ABC, In her more than thirty years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including two 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, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts 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 run of half a year on the list by Cokie Roberts’ other book, We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters. Cokie's best-selling book, Founding Mothers, explores the wives, daughters, philosophers and others who influenced the men behind the Constitution and Declaration of Independence. Her lastest book: Ladies of Liberty is now on sale.