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Abigail Adams offers a brand new point of view on the famous occasions of Adams's life, and on the way, Woody Holton, a renowned historian of the American Revolution, takes on numerous myths about the women and men of the founding age. But the e book also demonstrates that home dramas-from unplanned pregnancies to untimely deaths-could be in the same way heartbreaking, significant, and motivating as the actions of statesmen and troops. A special target of the e book is Adams's intricate interactions: with her mother, sisters, and children; with her husband's famous contemporaries; and with Phoebe, one of her father's slaves. At exactly the same time that John exhibited his own diplomatic skills over a better-known canvas, Abigail struggled to avoid the charitable gift ideas she provided her sisters from arriving between them. In a very departure from the persistently upbeat shade of all Adams biographies, Holton's work shows how frequently her life was marred by tragedy, making this the deepest, most humanistic portrayal ever published. Utilizing the matchless trove of Adams family manuscripts, the author steps back again to allow Abigail to react to her many loss in her own words. Holton unveils that Abigail Adams sharply disagreed with her husband's financial decisions and assumed control of the family's money herself-earning them a tidy lot of money through her shrewd speculations (this throughout a time when wedded women weren't permitted to own property). And he shows that her commitment to women's equality and education was powerful and explicitly expressed and sensible, from the more than two thousand words she wrote over her lifetime to her final will (written in defiance of legislation prohibiting wedded women from bequeathing property). Alternately witty, poignant, and uplifting, Holton's narrative sheds new light on one of America's best-loved but least-understood icons.
