Abigail Adams: A Biography

Wife of one president and mother of another Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her day--including Ben Franklin George and Martha Washington Thomas Jefferson Alexander Hamilton and King George III among others--provide one of the best first-hand accounts of the American Revolution. This biography researched and written over a fourteen-year period is a fascinating portrait of a brilliant woman at the center of the founding of the American republic.