Dearest Friend: A Life of Abigail Adams
Autor Lynne Witheyen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 oct 2002
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780743234436
ISBN-10: 074323443X
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 8 pages b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: ATRIA
Colecția Atria Books
ISBN-10: 074323443X
Pagini: 392
Ilustrații: 8 pages b-w photos
Dimensiuni: 156 x 235 x 28 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Ediția:Reprint
Editura: ATRIA
Colecția Atria Books
Notă biografică
Lynne Withey's books include Voyages of Discovery: Captain James Cook and the Exploration of the Pacific (1987) and Grand Tours and Cook's Tours: A History of Leisure Travel, 1750-1915 (1997). She has taught history at the University of Iowa, Boston University, and the University of California at Berkeley, and is now the associate director of the University of California Press. She lives in San Francisco.
Cuprins
Contents
Preface
Epilogue
Sources for Quotations
A Note on Sources
Index
Preface
Preface
- A Minister's Daughter
- John
- Wife and Mother
- Politics
- War
- Independence
- A Woman's Sacrifice
- The Long Separation
- Years of Decision
- Europe
- "The Ambassadress"
- A Homesick American
- The Vice President's Lady
- An Interlude at Quincy
- Mrs. President
- "The Federal City"
- The Matriarch of Peacefield
- The Curtain Falls
Epilogue
Sources for Quotations
A Note on Sources
Index
Preface
Recenzii
"As lively, sensible, and forthright as the woman about whom it is written. . . . Illuminating."
"Dearest Friend -- the Adamses' term for each other -- is most powerfully the history of a marriage, an "Eleanor and Franklin" for the 18th century with one important difference: Their marriage worked."
"Withey has not only brought Abigail to life, she has also added new depth and richness to our understanding of the intricate history of feminist thought."
"Dearest Friend -- the Adamses' term for each other -- is most powerfully the history of a marriage, an "Eleanor and Franklin" for the 18th century with one important difference: Their marriage worked."
"Withey has not only brought Abigail to life, she has also added new depth and richness to our understanding of the intricate history of feminist thought."
Descriere
On the heels of David McCullough's phenomenal No.1 New York Times bestseller JOHN ADAMS, a lively and authoritative biography of Adams's 'dearest friend.'