My Dearest Friend Letters of Abigail and John Adams

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  • Engels
  • Hardcover
  • 9780674026063
  • 31 oktober 2007
  • 488 pagina's
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Abigail Adams

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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In 1762, John Adams penned a flirtatious note to Miss Adorable, the 17-year-old Abigail Smith. In 1801, Abigail wrote to wish her husband John a safe journey as he headed home to Quincy after serving as president of the nation he helped create. The letters that span these nearly forty years form the most significant correspondence - and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships - in American history.As a pivotal player in the American Revolution and the early republic, John had a front-row seat at critical moments in the creation of the United States, from the drafting of the Declaration of Independence to negotiating peace with Great Britain to serving as the first vice president and second president under the U.S. Constitution. Separated more often than they were together during this founding era, John and Abigail shared their lives through letters that each addressed to My Dearest Friend, debating ideas and commenting on current events while attending to the concerns of raising their children (including a future president).Full of keen observations and articulate commentary on world events, these letters are also remarkably intimate. This new collection - including some letters never before published - invites readers to experience the founding of a nation and the partnership of two strong individuals, in their own words. This is history at its most authentic and most engaging.

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Hardcover
Oorspronkelijke releasedatum
31 oktober 2007
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488
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Hoofdauteur
Abigail Adams
Tweede Auteur
John Adams
Co Auteur
John Adams
Hoofdredacteur
Margaret A. Hogan
Tweede Redacteur
C. James Taylor
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Harvard University Press

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illustrated edition
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Verpakking breedte
170 mm
Verpakking hoogte
34 mm
Verpakking lengte
240 mm
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880 g

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