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Title:
Dear Abigail : the intimate lives and revolutionary ideas of Abigail Adams and her two remarkable sisters / Diane Jacobs.
ISBN:
9780345465061
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Edition:
First edition.
Publication Information:
New York : Ballantine Books, [2014]
Physical Description:
xii, 499 pages : illustrations, genealogical table ; 25 cm
Contents:
"Never sisters loved each other better than we" -- "Oppression is enough to make a wise people mad" -- "Sister delegate" -- "Something great is daily expected" -- "A solemn scene of joy" -- "The heart which is susceptible to all the finer sensations is ever subject to the deepest wounds" -- "The steel and the magnet" -- "How many how various how complicated my sensations!" -- "A joy in which our reason plays no part is but a sorrow" -- "The die is cast" -- "The disunited State of America" -- "With much joy and pleasure" -- "The most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived" -- "Too painful to think upon" -- "Second to no man but Washington" -- "Yours are mine and mine are yours" -- "One of Sister Cranchs letters is worth a half dozen of others" -- "Always I hope for the best."
Summary:
"A fascinating front-row seat to history--and to the lives of three exceptional women who were influential during a time when our nation's democracy was just taking hold."-- Provided by publisher.
OCLC Number:
ocn846889300
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