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Abigail Adams : a biography / Phyllis Lee Levin.

Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks E 322.1 .A38 L48 1987
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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

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