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"From virtually the moment she married the ambitious young lawyer John Adams in 1764, Abigail Smith Adams (1744-1818)awas on her own, raising and educating the couple's children, managing their farm and investments, and caring for anaextendedaweb of family and friends. Her frank and keenly observant letters to John and others in the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution at the home front, revealing the emergence of one of the most talented and insightful correspondents of her age. In 1784, Adams and daughter Abigail joined John and their son John Quincy inaEurope, opening a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor. Upon her return to America four years later, Adams became the first Second Lady and second First Lady of the United States, placing her at the very heart of the founding of the new nation. Now, joining George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Paine, Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Marshall, and husband John, Abigail Adams becomes the first woman from America's founding era to have a volume in The Library of America devoted entirely to her writings.aAbigail Adams- Lettersapr
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- Author
- Adams, Abigail [Adams, Abigail]
- Publisher
- Library of America
- Published
- 2016
- Language
- EN
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Historical Fiction, Historical, Fiction
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