Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
Title:
Abigail & John : portrait of a marriage
Author:
Gelles, Edith Belle.
Personal Author:
Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : William Morrow, [2009]
©2009
Physical Description:
xi, 339 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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
Language:
English
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.
ISBN:
9780061353871
Format :
Book
