Lynne Withey

Dearest Friend (eBook, ePUB)

A Life of Abigail Adams

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Dearest Friend is the biography of Abigail Adams, the unschooled minister's daughter who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. Rich with excerpts from her incomparable letters and alive with the ferment of a new nation, Dearest Friend captures both the public and the private sides of this fascinating woman. She was a keen observer of the politics of her time and fully grasped the Revolution's implications for women and slaves. She was an advocate of black emancipation and urged her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country.

John and Abigail Adams married for love, and their passion for each other endured for the fifty-four years of their marriage. They lived apart for more than a decade while John traveled in America and abroad to help begin a new country. Abigail remained at home for most of that time, writing letters to her "Dearest Friend," raising four children, managing a farm and the family finances, and keeping John informed of the political mood at home. This book chronicles their remarkable marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with the loneliness of separation, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, and other giants of her time.

Intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken, Abigail Adams lived an uncommon life for a woman of her time. First published in 1981, Dearest Friend brings her legacy to our century.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Simon + Schuster LLC
• Seitenzahl: 392
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. März 2002
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780743233125
• Artikelnr.: 49157039

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. She lives in San Francisco.

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