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First Family: Abigail and John by Joseph J. Ellis, John Adams, Abigail Adams
4.0
Book 5 of 40 for 2016
John and Abigail Adams are the original American power couple. Their 54 year marriage and partnership is something we should all strive for. Abigail Adams was an outlier in her generation a woman encouraged by her father and grandfather to read and participate in intellectual discussions though now common place was anything but for women in her generation. And she needed all that intellectual encouragement to take on the challenge of being married to John Adams.
This great read from Joseph Ellis looks at this grand partnership and how it survived and thrived in the many years they were separated by vast distances while the revolution was created and conducted. John was either in Philadelphia or Paris and they communicated by letters that were saved by the family. These 1200 letters provide the story of the revolution and the early government from the Adams perspective.
Abigail was John's true confident and main political advisor not until Eleanor Roosevelt do we see a first spouse as critical to their spouse as Abigail is to John.
If you've read David McCullough's John Adams or even if you've only watch the HBO miniseries based on the book this book is a great followup about the letters they exchanged and the partnership that help create this grand republic.
John and Abigail Adams are the original American power couple. Their 54 year marriage and partnership is something we should all strive for. Abigail Adams was an outlier in her generation a woman encouraged by her father and grandfather to read and participate in intellectual discussions though now common place was anything but for women in her generation. And she needed all that intellectual encouragement to take on the challenge of being married to John Adams.
This great read from Joseph Ellis looks at this grand partnership and how it survived and thrived in the many years they were separated by vast distances while the revolution was created and conducted. John was either in Philadelphia or Paris and they communicated by letters that were saved by the family. These 1200 letters provide the story of the revolution and the early government from the Adams perspective.
Abigail was John's true confident and main political advisor not until Eleanor Roosevelt do we see a first spouse as critical to their spouse as Abigail is to John.
If you've read David McCullough's John Adams or even if you've only watch the HBO miniseries based on the book this book is a great followup about the letters they exchanged and the partnership that help create this grand republic.