After thirty years together,
Cokie and Steve Roberts know something about marriage and
after thirty distinguished years in journalism, they know how
to write about it.
In From This Day Forward, Cokie
and Steve weave their personal stories of matrimony into a
wider reflection on the state of marriage in American today.
Here they write with the same
conversational style that catapulted Cokie's We Are Our
Mother's Daughters to the top of the New York Times
bestseller list.
They ruminate on their early worries
about their different faiths -- she's Catholic, he's Jewish --
and 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 marriage -- it is a story
of all husbands and wives, and how they support and strengthen
each other.
