Discussion with Cokie Roberts on her newest work, 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).

Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She has won countless awards, and in 2008 she was named a “Living Legend” by the Library of Congress. She is the author of the number one New York Times bestseller We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters. Her other books, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and From This Day Forward (written with her husband, journalist Steven V. Roberts), also spent weeks on the bestseller list. She and her husband have also collaborated on Our Haggadah. Roberts is the mother of two and grandmother of six.

Cost: $25 Members, $35 Non-members (Plus tax and house charge).  Includes small buffet and coffee/tea refreshments.

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