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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America's preeminent first few to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Trend and the republic's tenuous early on years. John and Abigail Adams still left an indelible and incredibly preserved portrait of these lives alongside one another in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was obviously the more gifted of the two), and through the years they exchanged more than 1,200 characters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unparalleled record to provide us a merchant account both seductive and breathtaking; part biography, part political background, and part love history. After they wedded, the few were separated nearly approximately they were alongside one another. John's political job took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the methods that could lead to the Declaration of Self-reliance. Later he was delivered to Paris, where he offered as a minister to the court docket of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years aside pressured the Adamses' union almost beyond what it might bear. John was elected the nation's first vice leader, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail's health avoided her from signing up for him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt possessed further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became leader, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest consultant by his area: "I could do nothing," John advised Abigail after his election, "without you." In Ellis's abundant and impressive new background, John and Abigail's romantic relationship unfolds in the framework of America's delivery as a region.
