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Abigail Adams : letters / Edith Gelles, editor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Library of America ; 275Publisher: New York, NY : The Library of America, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Description: xxxix, 1180 pages : genealogical tables ; 21 cmISBN:
  • 9781598534658
  • 1598534653
Other title:
  • Letters
Uniform titles:
  • Correspondence. Selections.
Subject(s): Genre/Form:
Contents:
Courtship and marriage, 1763-1773 -- Revolution, 1773-1777 -- The years abroad, 1778-1788 -- Vice president's lady, 1788-1796 -- First Lady, 1797-1801 -- Retirement, 1801-1818.
Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters - more than a hundred published for the first time - to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to "Remember the Ladies," letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation's founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams's life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees.
List(s) this item appears in: 2023 LSTA Adult Books
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Book Book Decatur Public Library Adult non-fiction Adult non-fiction 973.44 ADA (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 31564100197985
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Copy with barcode ending in 7985 was provided by a 2023 Library Services and Technology Act grant.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Courtship and marriage, 1763-1773 -- Revolution, 1773-1777 -- The years abroad, 1778-1788 -- Vice president's lady, 1788-1796 -- First Lady, 1797-1801 -- Retirement, 1801-1818.

Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters - more than a hundred published for the first time - to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to "Remember the Ladies," letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation's founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams's life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees.

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