The lively, authoritative, New York Times bestselling biography of Abigail Adams.
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.
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Contents
Preface
A Minister's Daughter
John
Wife and Mother
Politics
War
Independence
A Woman's Sacrifice
The Long Separation
Years of Decision
Europe
"The Ambassadress"
A Homesick American
The Vice President's Lady
An Interlude at Quincy
Mrs. President
"The Federal City"
The Matriarch of Peacefield
The Curtain Falls
Epilogue
Sources for Quotations
A Note on Sources
Index
Preface
