Read online: The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman by John L. Smith Jr.

The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman by John L. Smith Jr.

• The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman
• John L. Smith Jr.
• Page: 400
• Format: pdf, ePub, mobi, fb2
• ISBN: 9781594164217
• Publisher: Westholme Publishing

The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman

Free download of e books The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman in English by John L. Smith Jr.

Overview

A Wall Street Journal Spring Books 2024 Selection: “What to Read This Spring” An Extraordinary Portrait of America’s Beloved Female Founder and First Lady Abigail Adams, wife of John Adams, was an eyewitness to America’s founding, and helped guide the new nation through her observations and advice to her famously prickly husband, who cherished her. She met many important and significant figures of the period: George Washington and his wife Martha, Thomas Jefferson, Sally Hemings, Benjamin Franklin, Henry Knox, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, John Jay, Marquis de Lafayette, John Paul Jones, Alexander Hamilton, James Monroe, artist Patience Wright, and even King George III and Queen Charlotte of England, as well as King Louis XVI and Queen Marie Antoinette of France. In The Unexpected Abigail Adams: A Woman “Not Apt to Be Intimidated”, writer and researcher John L. Smith, Jr., draws on more than two thousand letters of Abigail’s spanning from the 1760s to her death in 1818, interweaving Abigail’s colorful correspondence—some of which has not appeared in print before—with a contextual narrative. In this priceless documentation of one of the most important periods of world history she comments on the varied personalities she encountered and, while her husband was away from home serving in the Continental Congresses and as a diplomatic envoy in Europe, she wrote him frequently about their home in Massachusetts, their family, national and local politics, and, during the early years of the war, crucial information concerning revolutionary activities around Boston. She was an advocate for education for women, a shrewd businesswoman, and had an unrivaled political acumen. Her strength in the face of disease, loss of children, and other hardships, and her poignant, beautiful, and often philosophical commentary, advice, and predictions allow Abigail to demonstrate her fully modern sensibilities. This major biography of Abigail, the first in over ten years, is a riveting, revealing portrait of a remarkable woman that readers will find very relatable—and one that transforms how she is perceived. 

More eBooks: Download PDF Dungeons & Dragons The Legend of Drizzt Visual Dictionary by Michael Witwer, R. A. Salvatore pdf, [PDF/Kindle] Le visiteur du futur - La Brigade Temporelle L'intégrale by François Descraques, Guillaume Lapeyre, Alexandre Desmassias, Jérôme Maffre read book, Read [Pdf]> Hide and Seeker by Daka Hermon site, [ePub] LA RUEDA DEL TIEMPO Nº 12/14 LA TORMENTA descargar gratis read pdf, [PDF] CIENCIAS COMPUTACION 1º BACHILLERATO ED 2023 MADRID descargar gratis download pdf, Download Pdf Le Suppléant site, And Away... by Bob Mortimer on Audiobook New link, [download pdf] Star Wars - La Haute République read pdf, DOWNLOAD [PDF] {EPUB} Return to Roar by Jenny McLachlan, Ben Mantle site, Download PDF Le bonheur d'être soi download pdf, {pdf download} Dawn of the Light Dragon: A Branches Book (Dragon Masters #24) by Tracey West, Matt Loveridge pdf, DOWNLOAD [PDF] {EPUB} The War on Children by John MacArthur link, [download pdf] Hunger Games Tome 2 read book, [ePub] MASCARAS FEMENINAS descargar gratis download link,