Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
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Product Information
Contributor(s): Lynne Withey, (Author)
Binding: Paperback
Page Count: 392 pages
Product Dimensions: 0.94" H x 9.24" L x 6.08" W
Product Weight: (0.95 lbs)
Publisher: Touchstone Books
Publish Date: July 09, 2002
ISBN: 9780743234436
Target Age Group: age 14+
Product Description
Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" is the first full biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. of photos.
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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