Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
by Withey, Lynne
- Used
- Condition
- good, good
- ISBN 10
- 0029347602
- ISBN 13
- 9780029347607
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Synopsis
This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was both an advocate of slave emancipation and a burgeoning feminist, urging her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country. John and Abigail Adams married for love. While John traveled in America and abroad to help forge a new nation, Abigail remained at home, raising four children, managing their estate, and writing letters to her beloved husband. Chronicling their remarkable fifty-four-year marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with loneliness, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Dearest Friend paints a portrait of Abigail Adams as an intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken woman.
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- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 44190
- Title
- Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
- Author
- Withey, Lynne
- Book Condition
- Used - good, good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Second Printing
- Binding
- Unknown
- ISBN 10
- 0029347602
- ISBN 13
- 9780029347607
- Publisher
- The Free Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1981
- Keywords
- John Qunicy Adams, Mary Cranch, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, Elizabeth Peabody, Cotton Tufts, John Thaxter, American Revolution, Abigail Adams
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