Abigail Adams / Woody Holton.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Holton, Woody.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.

Adams, Abigail.

Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.

Presidents' spouses.

United States.

Adams, John, 1735-1826.

Adams, John.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

xvii, 483 pages : illustrations, map ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Free Press hardcover edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Free Press, 2009.

Summary:

Prof. Woody Holton (NBA-finalist for Unruly Americans) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously known.

Contents:

1 "A Tender Twig," 1744-1761 1

2 "Miss Adorable," 1761-1764 13

3 "For Saucyness No Mortal Can Match Him," 1764 21

4 "Mrs. Adams," 1764-1770 33

5 "I Should Certainly Have Been a Rover," 1770-1774 45

6 "Mrs. Delegate," 1774 56

7 "Portia," 1774-1775 68

8 "My Pen Is Always Freer Than My Tongue," 1775 78

9 "Remember the Ladies," 1776 96

10 "This Suspence Is Painfull," 1776 108

11 "To Bear "What I Cannot Fly From," 1777 121

12 "An Army of Women," 1777-1778 130

13 "I Should Be a Gainer," 1778-1780 144

14 "A Queer Being," 1780-1781 156

15 "Nothing Venture Nothing Have," 1782 171

16 "I Will Run You in Debt," 1783-1784 182

17 "A Lady at Sea," 1784 193

18 "This Money Which I Call Mine," 1784-1785 208

19 "Honour, Honour, Is at Stake," 1785-1786 218

20 "The Grieved Mind Loves the Soother," 1786-1787 230

21 "Wisdom Says Soloman Maketh the Face to Shine," 1787 240

22 "I Design to Be Vastly Prudent," 1787-1789 254

23 "Much More Productive," 1789-1792 266

24 "With AH the Ardour of Youth," 1792-1795 284

25 "Presidante," 1796-1797 298

26 "I Did Get an Alteration in It," 1797-1798 309

27 "They Wisht the Old Woman Had Been There," 1798-1800 320

28 "A Day of Darkness," 1800-1804 329

29 "Your Mothers Legacy," 1805-1809 344

30 "Rather Positive," 1810-1811 354

31 "The 'Threefold Silken Cord is Broken,'" 1811-1812 366

32 "God Loves a Cheerfull Christian," 1812-1814 376

33 "I Was Thunder Struck," 1814-1815 391

34 "Dr Tufts Has Always Been My Trustee," 1815-1818 405.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781416546801

1416546804

OCLC:

310397741

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