| #308408 in Books | Abigail Adams | 2016-03-22 | 2016-03-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.10 x1.50 x5.20l,1.25 | File type: PDF | 1180 pages | Abigail Adams Letters Library of America 275 The Library of America||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| exceptionally intelligent woman who was a great correspondent|By Sam Hunter|Adams was a strong, exceptionally intelligent woman who was a great correspondent, but it does become rather a slog to digest the entire collection. I much more enjoyed the books written by Edith Gelles previously— Abigail and John: Portrait of a Marriage, Portia: The World of Abigail Adams, and|About the Author|Edith Gelles, editor, is Senior Scholar at Stanford’s Michelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Research and the author of Abigail & John: Portrait of a Marriage as well as the biographies Abigail Adams: A Writ
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published forthe first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Ada...
You easily download any file type for your device.Abigail Adams: Letters: Library of America #275 (The Library of America) | Abigail Adams. A good, fresh read, highly recommended.
