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Book SynopsisDuring the many years that they were separated by the perils of the American Revolution, John and Abigail Adams exchanged hundreds of letters. This title brings together their correspondence with a detail about life and thought, courtship and sex, gender and parenting, and class and politics in the revolutionary generation and beyond.
Trade Review"G. J. Barker-Benfield knows how to captivate a reader. His engagement with the inner strengths and utter humanity of Abigail and John is just the beginning of this ingenious and expansive study of the intellectual underpinnings of sensibility and the practical uses to which it was put in Revolutionary America. The author, already well known for his readings of Anglo-American cultural movements, explores widely ignored influences on the couple and adds tantalizing insights other historians do not provide." - Andrew Burstein, author of The Original Knickerbocker: The Life of Washington Irving"
