Cokie Roberts and Capital Dames

Political commentator Cokie Roberts will speak about her newest publication, Capital Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868. Continuing the journey she began in Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty, her New York Times bestsellers about the vital female contribution to the success of the American Revolution and our country?s early years, Cokie Roberts explores the lives of Washington D.C.'s women during the upheaval of the Civil War to mark its Sesquicentennial (150-year anniversary). Ms. Robert's presentation will be followed by book sales and signing by the author. Light refreshments will be served. Click here to purchase tickets or click here for information about attending a private reception with Cokie Roberts. Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming. From 1996-2002, she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. Roberts also serves as Senior News Analyst for National Public Radio. In her more than 40 years in broadcasting, she has won countless awards, including three 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 50 greatest women in the history of broadcasting. In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Roberts, along with her husband, Steven V. Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country by United Media. The Roberts also are contributing editors to USA Weekend Magazine, and in 2011 they published Our Haggadah, Uniting Traditions for Interfaith Families. Their earlier collaboration, From this Day Forward, an account of their more than 40 year marriage and other marriages in American history, immediately went onto The New York Times bestseller list. All of Cokie Roberts's other books have also been best-sellers, including the number one bestseller, We Are Our Mothers' Daughters an account of women's roles and relationships throughout American history. Her other bestselling books: Founding Mothers, published in 2004 and Ladies of Liberty in 2008, are histories of women in America's founding era. In 2014, Cokie Robert's published a children's version of Founding Mothers. Based on the original book, this version introduces young readers to the brace, brilliant, and enterprising women whose influence on the founding of our country was as instrumental as that of the men whose names are inked in history.