Abigail Adams: Letters: Library of America #275

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Abigail Adams: Letters presents 450 texts chosen and annotated by acclaimed Adams biographer Edith Gelles. Featuring letters to her husband and children and to such correspondents as Thomas Jefferson, the collection showcases Adams's astute political sense and her understanding of the American Revolution; the presidential administrations and personalities of Washington, Adams, Jefferson, and Madison; and the beginning of the political career of her son, future president John Quincy Adams.

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Edith Gelles, editor, is Senior Scholar at Stanford'sMichelle R. Clayman Institute for Gender Researchand the author of Abigail & John- Portrait of a Marriageas well as the biographies Abigail Adams- AWriting Life and Portia- The World of Abigail Adams.