My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams | Abigail Adams, John Adams

My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams | Abigail Adams, John Adams | The Mail

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My Dearest Friend:...

	My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams Abigail Adams, John Adams Belknap Press, 2007 - 528 pages average customer review:based on 12 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

A treasure trove of insight into the our nations past...

This collection of letters between Abigail and John Adams are a treasure trove of information and insight into the begining of our nation. Mr. and Mrs. Adams were very talented writers which makes reading the letters a pleasure. The topics cover a myraid of topics from politics (and it is interesting to see the effect Mrs. Adams excerted on her husband's political bent), to the flirtations, to the day to day events Wedding Funerals, ect.. There is so much here on so many levels, but I think what it does best is give the reader a personal glimpse into the period and the relationship between a president and his wife. This will make a great Christamas gift for the American history buff. Highly recommended!

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A significant collection of correspondence from the time of the founding of our nation. This decades long string of communication between the often-separated Mr. and Mrs. Adams is informative about those times on several planes: diplomatic, political, social, agricultural, and family. Winding throughout is the strong bond between a talented but thin-skinned politician, John, and his wise, supportive, and self-reliant wife, Abigail.

The book's editors did a nice job of keeping their explanatory comments to a useful, but minimal level. A clean text is thus provided, which keeps the focus on the letters as written.

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