Abigail Adams

In this book, Edith B. Gelles asserts that Abigail Adams'' vivid, insightful letters are "the best account that exists from the pre to the post-Revolutionary period in America of a woman''s life and world." Adams'' spontaneous, witty letters serve dual purposes for the modern reader: it provides an intriguing first hand account of pivotal historical events and it shows how these events from the Bo...