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Summary: From this day forward
Review: From the editorial review the books sounds like blah to me. Nothing unique. So they had a good marriage. Great for them. Not worth the effort.
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Summary: review of From This Day Forward
Review: Having read and loved WE ARE OUR MOTHERS' DAUGHTERS, I quickly rushed out and bought this new one and enjoyed it even more. The description of their marriage was fascinating enough, but then to read about other marriages in history as well as contemporary ones, really made it a unique reading experience. I urge everyone to buy several copies of this book--for themselves and to give to loved ones.
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Summary: A Wonderful Read
Review: I always loved Cokie Roberts on TV and when I saw this book, I figured it would be fun to read about her marriage to Steve Roberts. I recommend this book highly to everyone thinking of marriage especially. From the beginning I was drawn into this couple's world and liked the way they each expressed themselves in separate chapters. I found the entire book exciting, informative, inspiring, and so thankful that they took time to write about their unique marriage and how they make it work. This is a refreshing book. A rare book about how a marriage can work. I've been married for fifty years and I know this couple will celebrate gold as well. Lots of love and best wishes to Cokie and Steve and thanks for sharing your busy happy loving life with us. You'll be glad you read this book too.
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Summary: A Wonderful Read
Review: I always loved Cokie Roberts on TV and when I saw this book, I figured it would be fun to read about her marriage to Steve Roberts. I recommend this book highly to everyone thinking of marriage especially. From the beginning I was drawn into this couple's world and liked the way they each expressed themselves in separate chapters. I found the entire book exciting, informative, inspiring, and so thankful that they took time to write about their unique marriage and how they make it work. This is a refreshing book. A rare book about how a marriage can work. I've been married for fifty years and I know this couple will celebrate gold as well. Lots of love and best wishes to Cokie and Steve and thanks for sharing your busy happy loving life with us. You'll be glad you read this book too.
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Summary: The key to a successful intermarriage
Review: I began reading this book hoping for some insight on how successful married couples deal with intermarriage issues. What I soon found out was at least in this particualar case, the key to their success seemed to be that Steve Roberts brought barely any Jewishness into the home. In fact, had in not been for Cokie who is a Catholic, Judiasm would have barely been represented in the home at all. This one-sided religious representation appeared to be their key to success -- only Cokie had any strong religious feelings. Had they both had strong religious feelings, I think they would have been headed for trouble. Cokie, having been born to a family of political influence, power, and wealth, related something of a "riches to riches" story . However, she did relate stories about hardships she had to endure growing up such as how hard it can be to catch a cab in New York City. Steve on the other hand tried a little too hard to convince us that he really didn't mind that Cokie made more than he did and was more famous than him. The narrative style in which they related their story is fine for a magazine article but I found it a little tedious trying to read an entire book that way. My advice on buying this book would be to save your money.
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I especially appreciated the abundance of common sense the Roberts' demonstrate. As for Cokie's comments concerning those Florida voters mentioned in other reviews (funny how people who don't agree with her political views suddenly read this book and hated it), I suppose not everyone likes common sense in their politics. In the era of mysteious dimpled chads, the perspective and level-headedness of a knowledgeable, experienced, and wise woman is invaluable. As for the rating of this book by readers, there should be a recount. In fact, hold these reviews up to the light and keep recounting until this excellent book receives what it truly deserves: 5 Stars!
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Summary: Excellent
Review: I enjoyed this book very much. I especially appreciated the abundance of common sense the Roberts' demonstrate. As for Cokie's comments concerning those Florida voters mentioned in other reviews (funny how people who don't agree with her political views suddenly read this book and hated it), I suppose not everyone likes common sense in their politics. In the era of mysteious dimpled chads, the perspective and level-headedness of a knowledgeable, experienced, and wise woman is invaluable. As for the rating of this book by readers, there should be a recount. In fact, hold these reviews up to the light and keep recounting until this excellent book receives what it truly deserves: 5 Stars!
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Summary: The 60's generation in the next millenium
Review: I found this book to be worth the time spent reading it because of the insights they share about growing up in the 60's and becoming people of the 90's and the next century. Steve and Cokie Roberts grew up in vastly different East Coast households, but they were both from the "old" east coast. When as relative newlyweds they encounter the "new" culture of California and all its symbols - free love, feminism, war protests, etc. - their lives become a mirror in which we aging "boomers" can see ourselves. Cokie Roberts may be the daughter of political patricians but she nevertheless had to learn to cope with the changing assumptions about women as wives, mothers and professionals. When her career's zenith eclipses Steve's in the later part of the book she confronts issues that many of her younger, but nevertheless fellow "boomers" are facing today. Following Cokie Roberts example, the "me" generation could learn that the the whole (in this case, family) is worth more than simply the sum of the individual parts. Interestingly, the solutions to the "problem" of religiously mixed marriage Steve and Cokie devise are good templates for any type of "mixed" marriage today - mixed by race, ethnicity, religion, divorce and remarriage, or adoption. The inclusion of several stories about divorces they have known gives more weight to their ultimate hypothesis about marriage: "[they] are better people together than [they] are separately." Okay, so sometimes it's a bit sentimental and "gushy" but that's part of the charm of this book. You feel the authors are talking to you as if they were in your living room chatting casually. The book isn't a prescription about "how to" have a successful marriage (which they achieved,apparently); nor is it a proscription against brekaing up bad marriages. It is friends talking with friends about their personal successes and failures with candidness and some measure of self-evaluation. I, for one, am glad the Roberts' invited me over for the evening.
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Summary: Fun, light, cheery...
Review: I picked up this book for $5 at Borders, mainly because I enjoy listening to Cokie Roberts on NPR. I was curious to get to know her a little better. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. She and Steve take turns writing, as if they're dialoguing back and forth. I appreciated their commitment to their marriage in a day when it's not all that popular to stay married to the same person. I also enjoyed the glimpses into slave marriages and Old West marriages. I'm glad I picked up this book. It was a pleasant read for sure.
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Summary: Fun, light, cheery...
Review: I picked up this book for $5 at Borders, mainly because I enjoy listening to Cokie Roberts on NPR. I was curious to get to know her a little better. I thoroughly enjoyed the book. She and Steve take turns writing, as if they're dialoguing back and forth. I appreciated their commitment to their marriage in a day when it's not all that popular to stay married to the same person. I also enjoyed the glimpses into slave marriages and Old West marriages. I'm glad I picked up this book. It was a pleasant read for sure.
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