TY - BOOK AU - Phyllis Lee Levin TI - Abigail Adams SN - 9780312000073 AV - E322.1.A38 U1 - 973.440924 PB - St. Martin's Press KW - History - U.S KW - Biography N2 - Wife of one president and mother of another, Abigail Adams was an extraordinary woman living at an extraordinary time in American history. A tireless letter writer and diarist, her penetrating and often caustic impressions of most of the major persons of her day--including Ben Franklin, George and Martha Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Alexander Hamilton, and King George III, among others--provide one of the best first-hand accounts of the American Revolution. This biography, researched and written over a fourteen-year period, is a fascinating portrait of a brilliant woman at the center of the founding of the American republic ER -