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Cokie Roberts Will Discuss Her New Book on Founding Mothers at The Boston Public Library
February 22, 2005

Cokie Roberts, award-winning reporter, syndicated columnist and senior news analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News, will read and discuss her book Founding Mothers: The Women Who Raised Our Nation at the Boston Public Library on March 9, 2005 at 6:00 p.m. in the Rabb Lecture Hall.

Drawing upon personal correspondence, private journals, and other primary sources, Ms. Roberts will recount the often surprising stories of these fascinating women. A book signing will follow.

Ms. Roberts is an award-winning reporter, syndicated columnist, and senior news analyst for National Public Radio and ABC News. She has also authored “We are Our Mothers’ Daughters” and “From this Day Forward.”

This is part of Never Without a Book: John Adams, A President and His Library, a series of lectures highlighting the personal library of John Adams, which was deposited at the Boston Public Library in 1894. The series is generously supported by the Lowell Institute and administered by the Boston Public Library Foundation.

For more than 150 years, the Boston Public Library has pioneered public library service in America with revolutionary ideas and famous firsts. Established in 1848, the BPL was the first publicly supported municipal library in America, the first public library to lend books, the first to have a branch library and the first to have a children’s room. Today, the BPL boasts 27 neighborhood branches, free Internet access, two unique restaurants, an award-winning website www.bpl.org and an on-line store featuring reproductions of the BPL’s priceless photographs and artwork. Each year, the BPL hosts nearly 5000 programs, answers more than one million reference questions and serves millions of people in its National Historic Landmark McKim Building in Copley Square. All of its programs and exhibits are free and open to the public. At the Boston Public Library, books are just the beginning!

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