Cokie Roberts: Capital Dames
Cokie Roberts, author and political commentator, discusses her new book "Capital Dames, The Civil War and the Women of Washington, 1848-1868," which explores the lives of the women of Washington D.C. during the upheaval of the Civil War. Roberts has previously written about the vital female contributions to the nation's early years in her "New York Times" bestselling book, "Founding Mothers and Ladies of Liberty."
