Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275): Library of America #275: 4 (Library of America Adams Family Collection) - Hardcover

Adams, Abigail

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1598534653 ISBN 13: 9781598534658

Verlag: Library of America, 2016

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Reseña del editor:

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 for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition.

Biografía del autor:

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 Writing Life and Portia: The World of Abigail Adams.

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• Verlag: Library of America
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• ISBN 10: 1598534653
• ISBN 13: 9781598534658
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 1180
• Herausgeber: Gelles Edith