In this vivid new biography of the much illustrious woman of America's founding era, award-winning historian Woody Holton proposes a sweeping reinterpretation of Abigail Adams' life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic. Utilizing previously overlooked documents from a host of archives, Holton shows this the wife of the second ...
This lively biography of Adams details the life of a revolutionary, mother, activist and wife who engaged in the building of the America nation.
Abigail Adams campaigned for the ...
This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the much influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich together with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was together an advocate of slave emancipation and a burgeoning feminist, urging her ...