From that point on, the day was full of domestic responsibilities for her-cooking and cleaning for the family and guests, managing the farmhands and property, overseeing assets and expenditures, hiring and governing servants, and conducting the education of her children. Overall, I did enjoy this book and learned some things.On any given day in 1775, you’d find Abigail Adams, soon to become the fledgling nation’s second first lady, up at five in the morning to light the fire and get breakfast ready for her four children. It is reassuring or depressing to know in the late 1700s, people argued about many of the same things you hear today: the national debt, how much should we be involved in foreign affairs, the biased press. (“dark clothes were for women with dark pasts or peevish dispositions, Abigail wrote.” P. She wrote a lot, a colonial blogger, letters and diaries.
She had problems, including drunken relatives and unhappily married children. She is a rigid new Englander who loves duty and worships virtue. on the Virginian founding fathers for supporting slavery.
She was married to a president and mother to a president. But, it is a very traditional biography and chapters such as "Circumstances and connections respectable" and "Faithful are the Wounds" are not very spicy. I liked the description and the details of history weaved into a pleasing narrative. I found this book interesting, but it took many months to read. Approach this book with at least some knowledge of the family and events, then one can enjoy and appreciate the new details and insight that this work puts forth. If you are interested in the fascinating life of this special lady, I encourage you to start elsewhere. It has taken me several weeks, but I am glad to have finished this biography. With this new context and the desire to reinforce my historical knowledge and timeline of their lives, I again picked up this book. I recently read an extremely well written and entertaining book on John Adams by David McCullough that gave me a concise layout of the the events and people in the lives of this extraordinary couple. Also, it was hard for me to keep all the their friends and family members (and there were many) straight in my mind. The writing style which involves many quotes from actual letters written by or to Abigail Adams was a challenge. I received this book as a gift a few years ago, but was only able to get a couple of chapters into it.
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