Riding the Bomb: True Stories of Young People Surviving the Insanity of World War Book

With the death of Cokie Roberts this week, I checked to see if I had read all of her books. I discovered I had missed this one.

The book is well written and researched. The problem is the lack of information on many of the women except for Abigail Adams. In this period women had no rights and few were educated so little information about them was recorded. The Adams' family was an exception as they were educated, including the women, and were prolific letter writers and diary recorders. Some of the women covered in this book besides Abigail Adams are Dolly Madison, Martha Washington, Mary Barlett, Esther Burr and Sarah Livingston Jay. The book is a fast easy read and provides a glimpse of life in the 1700s.

I read this as an audiobook downloaded from Audible. The book is six hours and forty-three minutes. Cokie Roberts narrated her own book. Roberts was a pioneer television broadcaster journalist.