Abigail Adams : [a life] / Woody Holton.
Woody Holton (National Book Award finalist for Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution) reveals that American icon Abigail Adams was far wiser and wilier than previously known.
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New York :
Free Press,
2009.
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| Edition: | First Free Press hardcover edition. |
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| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references (pages 415-455) and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a "A tender twig," 1744-1761 -- "Miss Adorable," 1761-1764 -- "For saucyness no mortal can match him," 1764 -- "Mrs. Adams," 1764-1770 -- "I should certainly have been a rover," 1770-1774 -- "Mrs. Delegate," 1774 -- "Portia," 1774-1775 -- "My pen is always freer than my tongue," 1775 -- "Remember the ladies," 1776 -- "This suspence is painfull," 1776 -- "To bear what I cannot fly from," 1777 -- "An army of women," 1777-1778 -- "I should be a gainer," 1778-1780 -- "A queer being," 1780-1781 -- "Nothing venture nothing have," 1782 -- "I will run you in debt," 1783-1784 -- "A lady at sea," 1784 -- "This money which I call mine," 1784-1785 -- "Honour, honour, is at stake," 1785-1786 -- "The grieved mind loves the soother," 1786-1787 -- "Wisdom says Soloman maketh the face to shine," 1787 -- "I design to be vastly prudent," 1787-1789 -- "Much more productive," 1789-1792 -- "With all the ardour of youth," 1792-1795 -- "Presidante," 1796-1797 -- "I did get an alteration in it," 1797-1798 -- "They wisht the old woman had been there," 1798-1800 -- "A day of darkness," 1800-1804 -- "Your mothers legacy," 1805-1809 -- "Rather positive," 1810-1811 -- "The 'threefold silken cord is broken, '" 1811-1812 -- "God loves a cheerfull Christian," 1812-1814 -- "I was thunder struck," 1814-1815 -- "Dr Tufts has always been my trustee," 1815-1818. | |
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| 586 | |a Bancroft Prize, 2010. | ||
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