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Cokie Roberts

senior news analyst , NPR

Cokie Roberts is a senior news analyst for NPR News, where she was the congressional correspondent for more than 10 years. In addition to her work for NPR, 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 [more].

Cokie Roberts: Ladies of Liberty

Cokie Roberts reveals the stories of determined and passionate women, including Rebecca Gratz, Dolley Madison, Theodosia Burr, and Sacajawea.

Louis P. and Evelyn Smith First Amendment Award

December 1, 2006

Cokie Roberts, Nina Totenberg, and Linda Wertheimer receive the Ford Hall Forum's Louis P.

Tribute to Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm

January 16, 2006

On Martin Luther King Day, California Congresswoman Barbara Lee, National Public Radio's senior news analyst Cokie Roberts, and former Texas Governor Ann Richards discuss the remarkable political careers of two African American women, Barbara Jordan and Shirley Chisholm.

Founding Mothers: Women Who Raised Our Nation

November 29, 2004

Cokie Roberts delivers an intimate and illuminating look at the fervently patriotic and passionate women whose tireless pursuits on behalf of their families (and their country) proved just as crucial to the forging of a new nation as the rebellion that established it.

Ladies of Liberty: The Women Who Shaped Our Nation

Author: Cokie Roberts

Publisher: Harper Perennial (2009)

Binding: Paperback, 512 pages

We Are Our Mothers' Daughters: Revised and Expanded Edition

Author: Cokie Roberts

Publisher: William Morrow (2009)

Binding: Hardcover, 336 pages

Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation

Author: Cokie Roberts

Publisher: Harper Perennial (2005)

Binding: Paperback, 384 pages

From This Day Forward

Author: Cokie Roberts, Steven V. Roberts

Publisher: Harper Perennial (2001)

Binding: Paperback, 384 pages

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