Product Details
Free Press, November 2009
Hardcover, 512 pages
ISBN-10: 1416546804
ISBN-13: 9781416546801
"Insightful, sensitive, and original, Woody Holton's Abigail Adams: A Life presents the whole of this remarkable, slave-owning, financially savvy woman who lived, not just wrote, her constant concern for the rights of women. Here is a bounty of fine-grained social history as well as a feast of language, from the eye and the voice of a historian-poet."
-- Nell Irvin Painter, Edwards Professor of American History, Emerita, Princeton University and author of The History of White People
"This is the Adams who deserves a mini-series! A woman who slides right into 21st Century sense and sensibilities. Abigail Adams is an American hero and Holton brings all the riches of her letters and legacy into literary technicolor."
-- Ann Compton, White House Correspondent, ABC News
"A thorough and thoughtful portrait of a woman who deserves our attention as a heroine of both the American Revolution and the feminist one."
-- Ira Stoll, author of Samuel Adams: A Life
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 9, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
Hope Star, November 6, 2009
...University of Richmond history professor and author Woody Holton will lecture about his just-published Free Press biography, “Abigail Adams: A Life,” on Tuesday at the Adams National Historical Park. Here the National Book Award finalist ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Motoko Rich with notes from the field; and Jennifer Schuessler with best-seller news. Sam Tanenhaus is the host. Woody Holton's book "Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution" was a finalist for the National Book Award in 2007. ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...Nast Portfolio, will take the reins next month. It looks like Wall Street is coming around to Imax. 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, ...
New York Times, November 6, 2009
...discoveries by our fellow scholars of the founding era. But her subject isn’t as well known as Abigail Adams — that, I’m sure, is why she chose her — so you are reading the first-ever reference to ?First Lady of Letters? on ...
Washington Post, October 31, 2009
...Who's Blogging » Links to this article LITERARY CALENDAR NOVEMBER 2-7, 2009 2 MONDAY 7 P.M. Woody Holton, author of 'Unruly Americans and the Origins of the Constitution,' (a finalist for a National Book Award), discusses and signs his new ...
