I have read Page Smith's two-volume biography of John Adams and David McCullough's superlative biography of Adams but still found this book full of things of interest. Ellis (read ) This is the 6th book by Ellis I have read and, as always, he does a good job in making it a easy to read and informative book. First Family Abigail and John, by Joseph J. Here, John and Abigail's relationship unfolds in the context of America's birth as a nation.-From publisher description. When John became president, Abigail's health led to reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac, but he persuaded her that he needed his closest advisor by his side. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Ellis describes their first meeting as inauspicious-John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed. Ellis distills them to give us an account both intimate and panoramic part biography, part political history, and part love story. John and Abigail Adams left a remarkable portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was the more gifted), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters.
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