Abigail Adams: A Biography
Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her dayincluding Ben Franklin,...
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Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her dayincluding Ben Franklin, George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and King George III, among othersprovide one of the best first-hand accounts of the American Revolution. This biography, researched and written over a fourteen-year period, is a fascinating portrait of a brilliant woman at the center of the founding of the American republic.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780312291686 (031229168X)
Publish date: November 5th 2001
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Pages no: 592
Edition language: English