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