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Title: Portia: The World of Abigail Adams by Edith B. Gelles ISBN: 0-253-21023-2 Publisher: Indiana University Press Pub. Date: September, 1995 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.33 (3 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Abigail Unmasked
Comment: I think Abigail Adams is one the greatest and most interesting women in American history.
This book gives us a picture of her as a young woman, as the wife and confidant of John, as a mother, as a manager of farms and homes, and as a friend to many.
It also gives us a window into her life as a woman with a rich and interesting life of the mind and the heart.
A great read!
Rating: 4
Summary: John wouldn't be John without Abigail
Comment: In our post Hilary-Clinton world, we assume that the First Lady will influence the President to some degree or another.
John and Abigail Adams, however, were a couple like no other. Their partnership was amazing and John could not have been the man he was (revolutionary, founding father, statesman, president, friend, husband and father), without Abigail. She helped balance him, shared her intelligent and insightful views with him in ways that were supportive and helpful, gave up much of the life she probably envisioned with him so that he could serve his country in a variety of ways, managed his domestic and financial life alone for much of their marriage, and truly loved down to her core this sometimes difficult man.
This book is a great addition to our knowledge of this complex woman. It is worth reading just to understand her better, aside from her well-biographied husband.
Rating: 4
Summary: A fresh look at Abigail
Comment: Gelles presents for us Abigail Adams in a new light...the domestic woman. By telling her story thematically (one chapter devoted to her and her sisters, one devoted to her daughter and Abigail jrs fight with breast cancer) we meet a new Abigail...one who is not weighed down by proto-feminist thought, nor is she trying to dominate the home. Abigail was an unusual woman in a few ways, but keep in mind that she kept a family togehter by herself for the many years when John Adams was in Philadephia or England or France. She acted within social norms as a "deputy husband" (to use the language of the times). Although at times I question if Gelles isn't slightly underestimating the second first lady of the US...she presents a new counterpoint to the large body of Abigail Adams scholarship out there. For those scholars of Abigail Adams, her first chapter basically presents in a historiographical manner the various types of Abigail scholarship out there, offering a critique of many of the well-known authors. It is a bit dry at times, but is not at all painful to read.
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Title: Race and Revolution by Ga Nash, Gary B. Nash ISBN: 0945612214 Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishing (via NBN) Pub. Date: 01 December, 1990 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
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Title: A Respectable Army: The Military Origins of the Republic, 1763-1789 by James Kirby Martin, Mark Edward Lender ISBN: 0882958127 Publisher: Harlan Davidson Pub. Date: August, 1994 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Abigail Adams: A Biography by Phyllis Lee Levin ISBN: 031229168X Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: November, 2001 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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