Chamber Talks A Partner in Trust Program
Presents An Evening with Cokie Roberts ~ in conversation with Elizabeth Cromwell
Introduced by Senior Pastor Barbara Kershner Daniel
ABOUT THE PROGRAM 6:00 - 7:00 pm Doors Open 7:00 - 7:45 pm Discussion 7:45 - 8:15 pm Questions/Answers 8:15 Book signing Roberts and Cromwell will discuss Roberts' latest book, "Capitol Dames: The Civil War and the Women of Washington 1848-1868" and women in leadership in Frederick County and beyond, followed by audience Q & A. Purchase Tickets Today $15.00 in advance $20.00 at the door (CASH ONLY) Chamber Partners in Trust please call to redeem your complimentary registrations Book sale and signing following the presentation, courtesy of Curious Iguana Book Store ABOUT COKIE ROBERTS
Cokie Roberts is a political commentator for ABC News, providing analysis for all network news programming, as well as for NPR. From 1996-2002 she and Sam Donaldson co-anchored the weekly ABC interview program This Week. In her more than forty 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 fifty greatest women in the history of broadcasting.
In addition to her appearances on the airwaves, Ms. Roberts, along with her husband, Steve Roberts, writes a weekly column syndicated in newspapers around the country. Together they wrote From This Day Forward, an account of their more than forty year marriage and other marriages in American history. The book immediately went onto the New York Times Bestseller list, following Cokie Roberts’ number one bestseller, We Are Our Mothers’ Daughters, an account of women’s roles and relationships throughout American history. Her later books, Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty (published in 2004 and 2008 respectively), also became instant bestsellers.
Cokie Roberts holds more than twenty honorary degrees, serves on the boards of several nonprofit institutions, and on the President’s Commission on Service and Civic Participation. In 2008, the Library of Congress named her a “Living Legend,” one of the very few Americans to have attained that honor. She is the mother of two and grandmother of six.
With the outbreak of the Civil War, the small, social Southern town of Washington, D.C. found itself caught between warring sides in a four-year battle that would determine the future of the United States."