This is more a straight-up biography, of course largely based on those letters, among other things, and sometimes containing excerpts from those letters. Andrew had made a list of the books on my wishlist and headed to a local bookstore and picked this up instead, thinking he'd gotten the book on my list. I had put a book called My Dearest Friend on my wishlist - it was supposed to be largely just the collected letters between Abigail and John Adams.
Owning this book was sort of an accident. Chronicling their remarkable fifty-four-year marriage, her blossoming feminism, her battles with loneliness, and her friendships with Thomas Jefferson and James Madison, Dearest Friend paints a portrait of Abigail Adams as an intelligent, resourceful, and outspoken woman. While John traveled in America and abroad to help forge a new nation, Abigail remained at home, raising four children, managing their estate, and writing letters to her beloved husband. Rich with excerpts from her personal letters, Dearest Friend captures the public and private sides of this fascinating woman, who was both an advocate of slave emancipation and a burgeoning feminist, urging her husband to "Remember the Ladies" as he framed the laws of their new country. This is the life of Abigail Adams, wife of patriot John Adams, who became the most influential woman in Revolutionary America. The lively, authoritative, New York Times bestselling biography of Abigail Adams.
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