Abigail Adams : a biography / Phyllis Lee Levin.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Levin, Phyllis Lee.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
• Adams, John, 1735-1826.
• Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
• Presidents' spouses.
• United States.

Local Subjects:

• Adams, Abigail, 1744-1818.
• Adams, John, 1735-1826.

Genre:

• Biographies.

Physical Description:

xv, 575 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : St. Martin's Press, 1987.

Summary:

• A biography of the wife of President John Adams detailing her personal life, and social and historical developments.
• Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her day--including Ben Franklin, George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and King George III, among others--provide one of the best first-hand accounts of the American Revolution. This biography, researched and written over a fourteen-year period, is a fascinating portrait of a brilliant woman at the center of the founding of the American republic. -- Amazon.com

Contents:

• Part One: In Youth the Mind Is Like a Tender Twig
• Mountains Arise to Hinder Me
• An "Eaqual" Share of Curiosity
• The Die Is Cast
• Ten Thousand Difficulties
• To Rob Me of All My Happiness
• A Call So Honorable
• This Cruel State of Separation
• Part Two: A Mere American
• As Happy as a Lord
• À la Mode de Paris
• A Degree of Tristeness
• In Public Character
• Circumstances and Connections Respectable
• One of the Choice Ones of Earth
• Part Three: In a Flurry with Politics
• A Prospect of Calamities
• Splendid Misery
• Enough of Public and Private Anxiety
• Evils of a Serious Nature
• At Least Fall with Ease
• Part Four: Faithful Are the Wounds
• Rather Too Much then Too Little
• The Young Shoots and Branches
• The Close of the Drama
• Notes
• Bibliography
• Index.

Notes:

• "A Thomas Dunne book."
• Includes bibliographical references (pages 551-556) and index.

ISBN:

• 0312000073
• 9780312000073
• 031229168X
• 9780312291686
• 0345354737
• 9780345354730

OCLC:

14587039