| Edition |
1st Free Press hardcover ed. |
| Description |
xvii, 483 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
"A tender twig," 1744-1761 -- "Miss Adorable," 1761-1764 -- "For saucyness no mortal can match him," 1764 -- "Mrs. Adams," 1764-1770 -- "I should certainly have been a rover," 1770-1774 -- "Mrs. Delegate," 1774 -- "Portia," 1774-1775 -- "My pen is always freer than my tongue," 1775 -- "Remember the ladies," 1776 -- "This suspence is painfull," 1776 -- "To bear what I cannot fly from," 1777 -- "An army of women," 1777-1778 -- "I should be a gainer," 1778-1780 -- "A queer being," 1780-1781 -- "Nothing venture nothing have," 1782 -- "I will run you in debt," 1783-1784 -- "A lady at sea," 1784 -- "This money which I call mine," 1784-1785 -- "Honour, honour, is at stake," 1785-1786 -- "The grieved mind loves the soother," 1786-1787 -- "Wisdom says Soloman maketh the face to shine," 1787 -- "I design to be vastly prudent," 1787-1789 -- "Much more productive," 1789-1792 -- "With all the ardour of youth," 1792-1795 -- "Presidante," 1796-1797 -- "I did get an alteration in it," 1797-1798 -- "They wisht the old woman had been there," 1798-1800 -- "A day of darkness," 1800-1804 -- "Your mothers legacy," 1805-1809 -- "Rather positive," 1810-1811 -- "The 'threefold silken cord is broken,'" 1811-1812 -- "God loves a cheerfull Christian," 1812-1814 -- "I was thunder struck," 1814-1815 -- "Dr Tufts has always been my trustee," 1815-1818. |
| Summary |
Woody Holton (National Book Award finalist for Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously known. |
| Subject |
Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
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Presidents' spouses -- United States -- Biography.
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Adams, John, 1735-1826.
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| ISBN |
9781416546801 |
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1416546804 |
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