CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa — Norah O’Donnell, the award-winning broadcast journalist and former anchor of CBS Evening News, is turning the page to a new chapter in her career with the release of her latest book, We the Women. In it, O’Donnell spotlights the often-overlooked women whose influence helped shape the founding of the United States — long before they had the right to vote or hold office.
Drawing on extensive archival research, personal letters, and firsthand accounts, We the Women reframes early American history through the lives of women who were strategists, political thinkers, financiers, and moral forces behind the Revolution. Rather than retelling familiar narratives centered on the Founding Fathers, O’Donnell widens the aperture to include figures such as Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Eliza Schuyler Hamilton, and other women whose contributions were critical but historically marginalized…