Abigail Adams: Letters

For the first time, a comprehensive one-volume collection of the remarkable letters of the politically astute and keenly observant First Lady who has been called “an American Tocqueville.“Includes 430 letters-many published for the first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many othersAbigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer.Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantageon historical events in which her family played so prominent arole, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience ofAmerican women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries.Here are 430 letters-more than a hundred published forthe first time-to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, ThomasJefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, andMartha Washington, among many others. Including her famouscall to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770soffer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on thehome front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new fieldfor her talents as social commentator and political advisor while herroles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the veryheart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology ofAdams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees.This volume is published simultaneously withJohn Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784-1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition.LIBRARY OF AMERICAis an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.