We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America

Name: We the Women: The Hidden Heroes Who Shaped America
Brand: Ballantine Books
SKU: 9780593727027
Price: 42.00 USD
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Biographical Note:
Norah O'Donnell is a multiple Emmy Award-winning journalist with nearly three decades of experience covering the biggest stories in the world and conducting impactful, news-making interviews. She is CBS News's senior correspondent, focused on big interviews and projects for the network, and spent more than five years as the anchor and managing editor of CBS Evening News, the oldest and most revered evening news broadcast in America. O'Donnell anchors CBS News election specials and is a 60 Minutes contributing correspondent. She is married to Geoff Tracy, known as Chef Geoff, and is the mother of three children.

Kate Andersen Brower is the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Residence and First Women, also a New York Times bestseller, as well as Team of Five, First In Line, and the children's books Exploring the White House and The Hill. The Residence inspired a television series of the same name produced by Shonda Rhimes for Netflix. Her book Elizabeth Taylor is the first authorized biography of the icon. She covered the Obama administration for Bloomberg News. She is also a former CBS News staffer and Fox News producer. Kate has written for The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and The Washington Post. She lives outside of Washington, D.C., with her husband and their three young children.

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"A vital reminder of the importance of women's contributions to our history--and a call to action for anyone committed to carrying forward the work that they began." --Melinda French Gates

"A fascinating book with the colorful tales of more than thirty of these risk takers, visionaries, and pioneers." --Walter Isaacson

" We the Women is a powerful retelling of American history, one that is long overdue. With clarity and conviction, Norah O'Donnell brings to life the women whose courage helped shape our nation--often without recognition and against the odds. Their stories are a powerful reminder that progress has never been inevitable--it has always been driven by women willing to step forward to create a better future." --Sheryl Sandberg, founder of Lean In

" We the Women brings to the forefront the women who fought to help us live up to our founding ideals. As we commemorate our 250th anniversary, Norah O'Donnell reminds us that we cannot ignore the mothers, daughters, and sisters whose lives and work were central to the story of us. With a keen eye for detail and an interviewer's desire to understand more fully, O'Donnell invites us into important lives lived fully. We are a richer--and better--country when we acknowledge these women and the remarkable but largely untold contribution they made." --Ken Burns, filmmaker

" We the Women is a book that not only adults will love, but young readers as well. Norah O'Donnell makes history feel immediate and alive. By helping young people see themselves, and the girls around them, in these stories, We the Women expands how we imagine what women have done and what they can do. The result is a book essential for our moment." --Frédérique Irwin, president and CEO of the National Women's History Museum

"In We the Women, Norah O'Donnell brings long-overdue attention to the trailblazers, adventurers, inventors, organizers, and everyday women who built this country in ways history too often overlooked. It is a powerful testament to the extraordinary women who shaped America, and an essential reminder that their contributions are a vital part of our shared history." --Billie Jean King, sports icon and equality champion

"This is more than a history book; it's a moving portrait of resilience and progress, reminding us that America's strength has always owed much to the determination of its women." --Arianna Huffington

"Troublemakers and codebreakers, soldiers and doctors, poets and athletes--and heroines all . . . A lively, engaging account of women who helped shape the nation, even if the historians sometimes failed to notice." --Susan Page

"By skillfully weaving together individual stories of groundbreaking women, this terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden, role that women have played at every stage of our country's history." --Doris Kearns Goodwin

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER - A vivid portrait of the unsung American women from 1776 to today who changed the course of history in their fight for freedom and helped shape a more perfect union

"This terrific book reveals the central, though often hidden role that women have played at every stage of our country's history."--Doris Kearns Goodwin

Over a decades-long, distinguished career, award-winning journalist Norah O'Donnell has made it her mission to shed light on untold women's stories. Now, in honor of America's 250th birthday, O'Donnell focuses that passion on the American heroines who helped change the course of history.

We the Women presents a fresh look at American history through the eyes of women, introducing us to inspiring patriots who demanded that the country live up to the promises made 250 years ago in the Declaration of Independence: "that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." Since the signing of that document, the pressing question from women has been: Why don't those unalienable rights apply to us?

Through extensive research and interviews, as well as historical documents and old photos, O'Donnell curates a compelling portrait of these fierce fighters for freedom. From Mary Katherine Goddard, who printed the first signed Declaration of Independence, to the Forten family women, who were active in the abolition and suffrage movements and were considered the "Black Founders" of Philadelphia, to the first women who served in the armed forces even before they had the right to vote, O'Donnell brings these extraordinary women together for the first time, and in doing so writes the American story anew.

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