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2. self biography Abigail Adams
Abigail Adams offers a fresh perspective on the famous events of
Adams's life, and along the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the
American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the men and women of the
founding era. But the book also demonstrates that domestic dramas-from unplanned
pregnancies to untimely deaths-could be just as heartbreaking, significant, and
inspiring as the actions of statesmen and soldiers. A special focus of the book is
Adams's complex relationships: with her mother, sisters, and children; with her
husband's famous contemporaries; and with Phoebe, one of her father's slaves. At
the same time that John exhibited his own diplomatic skills on a better-known
canvas, Abigail struggled to prevent the charitable gifts she gave her sisters from
coming between them. In a departure from the persistently upbeat tone of most
Adams biographies, Holton's work shows how frequently her life was marred by
tragedy, making this the deepest, most humanistic portrayal ever published. Using
the matchless trove of Adams family manuscripts, the author steps back to allow
Abigail to respond to her many losses in her own words.
Holton reveals that Abigail Adams sharply disagreed with her husband's financial
decisions and assumed control of the family's money herself-earning them a tidy
fortune through her shrewd speculations (this during a time when married women
were not permitted to own property). And he shows that her commitment to
women's equality and education was intense and explicitly expressed and practical,
from the more than two thousand letters she wrote over her lifetime to her final will
(written in defiance of legislation prohibiting married women from bequeathing
property).
Alternately witty, poignant, and uplifting, Holton's narrative sheds new light on one
of America's best-loved but least-understood icons.

3. self biography Abigail Adams
Written By: Woody Holton
Narrated By: Cassandra Campbell
Publisher: Tantor Media
Date: November 2009
Duration: 19 hours 30 minutes

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