Abigail Adams: Letters presents 450 texts chosen and annotated by acclaimed Adams biographer Edith Gelles. Featuring letters to her husband and children and to such correspondents as Thomas Jefferson, the collection showcases Adams's astute political sense and her understanding of the American Revolution; the presidential administrations and personalities of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; and the beginning of the political career of her son, future president John Quincy Adams.
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Edith Gelles, editor, is Senior Scholar at Stanford's Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the author of Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage as well as the biographies Abigail Adams: A Writing Life and Portia: The World of Abigail Adams.
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Includes 430 letters-many 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 Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer.Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantageon historical events in which her family played so prominent arole, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience ofAmerican women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published forthe first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, ThomasJefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, andMartha Washington, among many others. Including her famouscall to "Remember the Ladies," letters from the 1760s and 1770soffer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on thehome front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new fieldfor her talents as social commentator and political advisor while herroles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the veryheart of the nation's founding. Also included are a chronology ofAdams's life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously withJohn Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Seller Inventory # CIN1598534653VG
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Hardback. Condition: Very Good. Includes 430 letters-many 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 Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer.Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantageon historical events in which her family played so prominent arole, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience ofAmerican women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published forthe first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, ThomasJefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, andMartha Washington, among many others. Including her famouscall to "Remember the Ladies," letters from the 1760s and 1770soffer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on thehome front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new fieldfor her talents as social commentator and political advisor while herroles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the veryheart of the nation's founding. Also included are a chronology ofAdams's life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously withJohn Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation's literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America's best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries. Seller Inventory # CIN1598534653VG
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