Lynne Withey

Dearest Friend

A Life of Abigail Adams

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Produktbeschreibung

Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, "Dearest Friend" is the first full biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. of photos.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Atria Books
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. Juli 2002
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 154mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9780743234436
• ISBN-10: 074323443X
• Artikelnr.: 21958731

Autorenporträt

Lynne Withey's books include Voyages of Discovery: Captain James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (1987) and Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, 1750-1915 (1997). She has taught history at the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is now the associate director of the University of California Press.

Inhaltsangabe

Contents
Preface
1. A Minister's Daughter
2. John
3. Wife and Mother
4. Politics
5. War
6. Independence
7. A Woman's Sacrifice
8. The Long Separation
9. Years of Decision
10. Europe
11. "The Ambassadress"
12. A Homesick American
13. The Vice President's Lady
14. An Interlude at Quincy
15. Mrs. President
16. "The Federal City"
17. The Matriarch of Peacefield
18. The Curtain Falls
Epilogue
Sources for Quotations
A Note on Sources
Index
Preface