The Adams Women: Abigail and Louisa Adams, Their Sisters and Daughters

by Paul C. Nagel

Overview

From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family. Nagelpulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances. They all lived exceptional, if not extraordinary, lives, in different ways.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780674004108
Publisher:	Harvard University Press
Publication date:	04/15/1999
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.31(w) x 8.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Paul C. Nagel is former Director of the Virginia Historical Society, a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a cultural laureate of Virginia, and a contributing editor of American Heritage.

What People are Saying About This

A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women...Deeply informative and a pleasure to read.

David McCullough

What a splendid, moving book!...No one who reads this chronicle of the remarkable Adams women will forget them, or look upon their time in quite the same way again.

Robert Middlekauff

A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women...Deeply informative and a pleasure to read.

Editorial Reviews

A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women...Deeply informative and a pleasure to read.

Robert Middlekauff

Nagel's research is assiduous, his prose fluid and compelling.

The Village Voice

Splendid...[an] admirably, often eloquently, written book.

The Boston Globe

What a splendid, moving book!...No one who reads this chronicle of the remarkable Adams women will forget them, or look upon their time in quite the same way again.

David McCullough

"Nagel's The Adams Women is as fine as his Descent from Glory, which is high praise indeed.... A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women. It is sympathetic to these women, but not sentimental. It is written with great clarity and care. All in all, it is deeply informative and a pleasure to read."—Robert Middlekauff, author of The Glorious Cause, and Director of The Huntington Library

"A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women....Deeply informative and a pleasure to read."—Robert Middlekauff, director of The Huntington Library

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