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First Family - Abigail & John Adams

By: Alfred A. Knopf

Type: Hardcover

Product Line: Historical Books (Alfred A. Knopf)


Product Info

Title
First Family - Abigail & John Adams
Publisher
Category
Author
Joseph J. Ellis
Publish Year
2010
Pages
320
Dimensions
6.75x9x1.25"
NKG Part #
2148023371
Type
Hardcover

Description

The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.

John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story.