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Book review: ‘Abigail Adams’ sought to open doors for women
Book review: ‘Abigail Adams’ sought to open doors for women
Book review: ‘Abigail Adams’ sought to open doors for women Abigail Adams Abigail Adams By Woody Holton Free Press 512 pages Until now, much more was known about the second president of the United States than his wife, but in his new biography, Abigail Adams, prize-winning historian Woody ...
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Author Scoop — ... Woody Holton fills in the story of the US’s second First Lady and, in some ways, our first feminist, ABIGAIL ADAMS. ...

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PhiloBiblos — ... culture so much more "murderous" than other affluent societies. In a followup Book Bench post, Lepore discusses Edmund Lester Pearson, who wrote true crime stories for the New Yorker in the 1930s and was also responsible for the hoax that led to the name of this blog. - Christopher Howse reviews Dan Cruickshank's The Secret History of Georgian London in the Telegraph. - Woody Holton's Abigail Adams is reviewed by Diana Raabe in the In Denver Times. ...

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Stray Questions for: Woody Holton
papercuts.blogs.nytimes.com 14 days ago — Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. His new book, "Abigail Adams," was released this week.
Book Review and Recommendation: Woody Holton's "Abigail Adams"Gather Books Essential
Having studied an extensive variety of archived documents, including the Adams Family Correspondence housed at the Massachusetts Historical Society, Woody Holton delivers an elegant account of American . . .