Here they write with the same conversational style that catapulted Cokie'sย We Are Our Mother's Daughtersย to the top of theย New York Timesย bestseller list. They ruminate on their early worries about their different faithsโshe's Catholic, he's Jewishโand describe their wedding day at Cokie's childhood home. They discuss the struggle to balance careers and parenthood, and how they compromise when they disagree. They also tell the stories of other American marriages: that of John and Abigail Adams, and those pioneers, slaves and immigrants. They offer stories of broken marriages as well, of contemporary families living through the "divorce revolution". Taken together, these tales reveal the special nature of the wedding bond in America. Wise and funny, this book is more than an endearing chronicle of a loving marriageโit is a story of all husbands and wives, and how they support and strengthen each other.
Cokie Roberts was a political commentator for ABC News and NPR. She won countless awards and in 2008 was named a โLiving Legendโ by the Library of Congress. She was the author of the New York Times bestsellers We Are Our Mothersโ Daughters, Founding Mothers, Ladies of Liberty, and, with her husband, the journalist Steven V. Roberts, From This Day Forward and Our Haggadah.
Steve Roberts has been a journalist for more than fifty years. He is the author of My Fatherโs House and From This Day Forward, which he cowrote with Cokie. He is the chief political analyst for the ABC radio network, a professor of journalism and politics at George Washington University, and a nationally syndicated columnist. He lives in Cokieโs childhood home in suburban Washington, which he and Cokie shared for forty-two years.