Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275) (Library of America Adams Family Collection)

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Includes 430 lettersmany published for the first timeto John Adams John Quincy Adams Thomas Jefferson Mercy Otis Warren James and Dolley Madison and Martha Washington among many others 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 lettersmore than a hundred published for the first timeto 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 nations founding. Also included are a chronology of Adamss life detailed notes and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 17841826 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 nations literary heritage by publishing and keeping permanently in print Americas 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.