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Author:
Gelles, Edith Belle.
Title:
Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage / Edith B. Gelles.
Edition:
1st Harperluxe ed.
Publisher:
Harperluxe,
Copyright Date:
c2009
Description:
xv, 644 p. (large print) ; 23 cm.
Subject:
Adams, John,--1735-1826--Marriage.
Adams, Abigail,--1744-1818--Marriage.
Presidents--United States--Biography.
Presidents' spouses--United States--Biography.
Married people--Massachusetts--Biography.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (p.[315]-326) and index.
Contents:
The steel and the magnet -- A tye more binding -- Separation and the new covenant -- A new code of laws -- War and the way of duty -- Republican father -- Diplomacy at home and abroad -- In the midst of the world in solitude -- At the court of St. James's -- Looking homeward -- The most insignificant office -- Splendid misery -- The Adamses retire -- Time and silence.
Summary:
The story of Abigail and John Adams is as much a romance as it is a lively chapter in the early history of this country. The marriage of the second president and first lady is one of the most extraordinary examples of passion and endurance that this country has ever witnessed. And it is a drama peopled with a pantheon of eighteenth-century stars: George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, his daughter Patsy, Ben Franklin, and Mercy Otis Warren. --from publisher description
ISBN:
0061668362 (pbk.) :
9780061668364 (pbk.) :
Locations:
CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

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