Who Was Abigail Adams

Author : True Kelley
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0448478900
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Who Was Abigail Adams? written by True Kelley and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2014-01-23 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Adams was a strong woman far ahead of her time. She urged her husband, President John Adams, to "remember the ladies" and despite having no formal education herself, she later advocated for equal education in public schools for both boys and girls. She was also the first First Lady to live in the White House! This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period.

Author : Woody Holton
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1451607369
Total Pages : 512 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abigail Adams written by Woody Holton and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-06-01 with total page 512 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Bancroft Prize The New York Times Book Review, Editor’s Choice American Heritage, Best of 2009 In this vivid new biography of Abigail Adams, the most illustrious woman of the founding era, Bancroft Award–winning historian Woody Holton offers a sweeping reinterpretation of Adams’s life story and of women’s roles in the creation of the republic. Using previously overlooked documents from numerous archives, Abigail Adams shows that the wife of the second president of the United States was far more charismatic and influential than historians have realized. One of the finest writers of her age, Adams passionately campaigned for women’s education, denounced sex discrimination, and matched wits not only with her brilliant husband, John, but with Thomas Jefferson and George Washington. When male Patriots ignored her famous appeal to "Remember the Ladies," she accomplished her own personal declaration of independence: Defying centuries of legislation that assigned married women’s property to their husbands, she amassed a fortune in her own name. Adams’s life story encapsulates the history of the founding era, for she defined herself in relation to the people she loved or hated (she was never neutral), a cast of characters that included her mother and sisters; Benjamin Franklin and James Lovell, her husband’s bawdy congressional colleagues; Phoebe Abdee, her father’s former slave; her financially naïve husband; and her son John Quincy. At once epic and intimate, Abigail Adams, sheds light on a complicated, fascinating woman, one of the most beloved figures of American history.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.52/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Letters of Mrs. Adams written by Abigail Adams and published by . This book was released on 1840 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Natalie S. Bober
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1439115494
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abigail Adams written by Natalie S. Bober and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2010-05-11 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman who witnessed the gathering storm of the American Revolution and saw the battle of Bunker Hill from a hilltop near her home. Through her letters to friends and family, Abigail Adams lives in history--and now in this award-winning biography by Natalie Bober. Black & white illustrations .

Author : David A. Adler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823420070
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Picture Book of John and Abigail Adams written by David A. Adler and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A simple, illustrated biography of one of America's most famous couples.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674057058
Total Pages : 549 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My Dearest Friend written by Abigail Adams and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2010-11-15 with total page 549 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Spanning nearly forty years, the letters collected in this volume form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.

Author : John Adams
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.EL/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535293
Total Pages : 1180 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275) written by Abigail Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2016-08-30 with total page 1180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823419425
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Abigail Adams written by and published by . This book was released on 2004-10-21 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With vivid, folk-art style paintings and a simple, lively text, Alexandra Wallner tells the story of Abigail Adam's life. Born on November 11, 1744, Abigail was curious about the world from a young age. Though as a girl she could not go to school, she learned in her father's library, and reading and writing became important to her. As a teenager she met the young lawyer John Adams. They began to correspond, and later they were married. While John pursued a political career, Abigail assisted him in it, raised their large family, and efficiently ran their farm. Along with her husband, she ardently supported the American Revolution. She also believed that a country fighting for independence should not permit slavery, and that women should have the same rights as men. Abigail Adams felt her most important role was as wife and mother, but she was never silent about her opinions.

Author : Jeri Ferris
Publisher : Millbrook Press
ISBN 13 : 9781575052922
Total Pages : 70 pages
Book Rating : 4.2X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Remember the Ladies written by Jeri Ferris and published by Millbrook Press. This book was released on 2000-05-01 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the life and achievements of the nation's second First Lady and advocate for women's rights.