About this title: This book presents full portraits of eight Adams women, beginning with Abigail Smith Adams and ending with her great-granddaughter, Mary Adams Quincy. The book features Abigail Adams' fierce relationship with her two sisters and how she was imprisoned in a narrow sphere as John Adams' wife; her daughter Nabby Adams Smith, caught between a domineering mother, a rascal husband and a distracted father; Ann Harrod Adams, left embittered by her husband's alcoholism and financial dependence; Lousia Catherine Adams John Quincy's wife, who ultimately triumphed over family difficulties to become the ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780195038743ISBN:0195038746
Description: Very good in very good dust jacket. Very Good, In very good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 324 p. Ex-Library expected imperfections. read more
Description: Good. 1987 Oxford University Press Hardcover with dust jacket in protective mylar cover--Ex-Library with markings, card removed--DJ taped to book, faded at spine--otherwise little wear. read more
Binding: Softcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195059205ISBN:0195059204
Description: A wonderful copy with some minor edgewear to the cover. Book has tanning or browning due to normal aging process. -, Trade PaperBack, Very Good / read more
Description: Acceptable. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Good. Shows some signs of wear, and may have some markings on the inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Description: Acceptable. Former Library book. Shows definite wear, and perhaps considerable marking on inside. Shipped to over one million happy customers. Your purchase benefits world literacy! read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Oxford
Date Published: 1989
ISBN-13:9780195059205ISBN:0195059204
Description: Good/Wraps. . Trade paperback, good condition, w. ltly rubbed wraps--a few lt scratches. Ltly tanned r. wrap. V. ltly bumped sp ends. Smwht tanned p. edges, ltly tanned ins wraps. O/w cln, tight, unmarked. read more
Binding: Cloth
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA, Don Mills, ON, Canada
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780195038743ISBN:0195038746
Description: Very Good in Very Good jacket. 0195038746 bigail Adams, Elizabeth Shaw Peabody, Nabby Adams Smith, Louisa Catherine Adams, Abby Brown Brooks, Nancy Harrod, Mary Hellen. Black and white illustrations. Much information was contained in the Adams Papers due to the sisters and daughter communicating frequently with one another. read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 1987
ISBN-13:9780195038743ISBN:0195038746
Description: Very good in good dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 324 p. Audience: General/trade. Hard cover book with dust jacket. Book is clean, tight, and intact. No marks, no tears. Dust jacket has some shelf wear. In stock. Same/next business day shipping. read more
Description: NEAR FINE+/Trade pb. Very nice first paperback edition of author's classic biography of the remarkable Adams women. You have to go all the way to Eleanor Roosevelt to match Abigail. No marks, bright, straight, sl wear and page toning. 1989, Oxford trade paperback, 1st pb ed (stated), 310 pp. ISBN 0195059204 read more
"This book was amazing. I loved every word of it. Truly felt like I knew the women at the end. Fantastic for anyone interested in American Women's history or this wonderful family."
"This author makes the Adams women come alive. You share their joys and sorrows, triumphs and tragedies in a way that makes you feel you are right there, amidst their flesh and blood existence. His psychological analysis of the characters, based on tremendous research, is spellbinding. I have ordered every book by Paul Nagel, and have never been disappointed. This is the third of his that I have read, have two to go, and really look forward to them."
"Bought and read this while on a trip in Boston- I seem to remember some excerpts of letters between John & Abigail that made me wish letter writing was not a lost art-"
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