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# Abigail Adams: A Life

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Could not put this book down!
  

*by P***R on Reviewed in the United States on March 8, 2013*

With a couple of notable exceptions, I agree with most of the reviews of Woody Holton's wonderful biography of Abigail Adams. The other 5 star reviews say it better than I, so I will try not to repeat too much.Holton's "Abigail Adams" was immensely readable as well as thought-provoking: for example, it made me wonder how many other women of that era felt the same as she did about women's rights, or the lack thereof? AA might not have been an anomaly, were we able to ever know. The obvious fact is, her letters to her husband and other family members were preserved because the Adams family was famous. It's interesting just to wonder, since it can never be discovered, how many other women felt exactly the same way, especially about the lack of education, legal rights (especially regarding abuse), and the inability to own anything in their own right? Her sisters obviously felt the same way, and it stands to reason that other women did too. However, some might not have had the type of husband or families that would even "permit" a discussion of these rights, much less "allow" her to handle monetary transactions and advise others as well. (Witness the one or two star reviews by people who even now feel threatened by the "feminist" from over two-hundred years ago). I would think that it would have taken a lot of courage to express those kind of beliefs during a time when women were little more than slaves. AA had a loving and mostly supportive husband, but others could have risked their lives for saying and doing the same things. It also makes me wonder if any of her direct descendants, male or female, were especially inspired enough by her ideas to try to change anything?Finally, I learned so much history of the lives of real people from reading her letters. This book, however, was not just the letters; I've read other bios of AA, and I particularly liked the way Prof Holton interpreted and explained them. I'm a lifelong history lover/reader and I agree with another reviewer that it's books like this one that should be assigned EARLY in school history classes (middle school, at least?) so that people will grow up wanting to learn about the history of our country and world! It is so interesting and exciting, everyone should read this book and others like it. Thank you Professor Holton!

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    One Brilliant Woman
  

*by S***S on Reviewed in the United States on April 16, 2018*

If a time machine could take you back to Revolutionary Massachusetts and the early years of our republic, you might think the most interesting people you would meet would be George Washington, Joseph Warren, Paul Revere, Ben Franklin, etc., but you would be wrong.  The most interesting person there would be Abigail Adams, the wife of future president John Adams.  Holton does a excellent job bringing her to life, no doubt because he had several tons of original material to work with, including over two thousand surviving letters, journals, and diaries.  Before telephones, literate people wrote a lot, to everyone they knew.  The most revealing stuff, of course, is the correspondence between John and Abigail.Quibbles: One wishes Holton's prose would get up and dance occasionally, but it never does.  One doubts he has it in him.  Sadly, he surrendered to the feminists when choosing how to name his actors.  He has an infuriating habit of calling both John and Abigail "Adams" and one must stop and make sure just which Adams he is talking about.  He flops from husband to wife and back again in alternating paragraphs.  His editor should have demanded that Holton refer to Abigail and John by their Christian names in the service of clarity, and we readers are the poorer because he didn't.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Maybe the smartest and most influential woman in US history!
  

*by T***R on Reviewed in the United States on May 14, 2022*

Abigail Adams was a woman ahead of the times yet was able to be successful within the considerable limitations society placed on women of her time.  A success story for the ages.

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