Contents

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Epigraph

Family Trees

Preface

PART ONE

1. In Youth the Mind Is Like a Tender Twig

2. Mountains Arise to Hinder Me

3. An “Eaqual” Share of Curiosity

4. The Die Is Cast

5. Ten Thousand Difficulties

6. To Rob Me of All My Happiness

7. A Call So Honorable

8. This Cruel State of Separation

PART TWO

9. A Mere American

10. As Happy as a Lord

11. À la Mode de Paris

12. A Degree of Tristeness

13. In Public Character

14. Circumstances and Connections Respectable

15. One of the Choice Ones of the Earth

PART THREE

16. In a Flurry with Politics

17. A Prospect of Calamities

18. A Sense of the Obligations

19. Enough of Public and Private Anxiety

20. Evils of a Serious Nature

21. At Least Fall with Ease

PART FOUR

22. Faithful Are the Wounds

23. Rather Too Much than Too Little

24. The Young Shoots and Branches

25. The Close of the Drama

Acknowledgments

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Praise for Abigail Adams

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