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Cokie Roberts -- Grappling with the Civil War to Promote Women

89.3 WRKF Baton Rouge | By Amy Jeffries
Published April 24, 2015 at 1:16 AM CDT

Following Ladies of Liberty andFounding Mothers, NPR and ABC News regular Cokie Roberts has written another book giving women in American history credit where credit is due.

The latest, Capital Dames, looks at the Civil War and the Women of Washington, D.C. from 1848-1868.

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Amy started her career in public radio at WNPR in Hartford, CT more than a decade ago. NPR flew her in to Baton Rouge to help WRKF cover the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina while she was still based in the North. Here she found her journalistic calling.

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