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Title: We Are Our Mothers' Daughters by Cokie Roberts ISBN: 0-688-16967-8 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 05 April, 2000 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $11.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.94 (33 reviews)

Rating: 3
Summary: Surprisingly lightweight
Comment: I bought this book because it was written by Cokie Roberts, whose TV and radio political commentary I admire and enjoy. But I was surprised at this book's light weight. I enjoyed reading about her family and herself, but ended up knowing very little in depth about any of them (including her mother's name), although her stories about her aunts are hilarious. They reminded me of the Ya Ya Sisterhood. I found the other women Roberts wrote about a little dull. I'm sure they are not dull, but Roberts' writing is. Come on, Cokie, you can do better than this. Readers should get in-depth thinking in books, not sound bites or a two-minute feature TV story. Happily, the book is an easy reader and can be zoomed through in no time, allowing women to get on with their busy lives. No new insights here.

Rating: 4
Summary: The softer side of Cokie.
Comment: I bought this book after reading an excerpt in Working Mother magazine. Roberts looks at her relationships with the various women in her life--mother, daughters, girlfriends, sisters, etc.--and the bonds that hold them together through various stages of life. Having only seen her on the news in the past, I have a new appreciation for the storyteller she is. I cried when I read about her sister's battle with breast cancer, and the women who supported each other through this crisis.

Rating: 5
Summary: We Are Our Mothers' Daughters
Comment: Veteran journalist Roberts intersperses her memoir with vignettes of women she's gotten to know in three decades of political reporting. She grew up in Washington and Louisiana, the daughter of U.S. Reps. Hale and Lindy Boggs, with an extended family that provided strong female role models. Two of the women she profiles here are Esther Peterson, a consumer advocate in the 1970s, and Dorothy Height, former president of the National Council of Negro Women. Roberts also speaks of her career and motherhood in the years before employers provided maternity leave and subsidized daycare. Finally, she asks, "What is a woman's place? For most women it's many places, different places at different times." This lively recording will be popular among public library patrons