Writing in the last years of the fourth century a.d., Saint Augustine of Hippo created what is at one time the first true autobiography in ...
In this vivid new biography of the much illustrious woman of America's founding era, award-winning historian Woody Holton proposes a sweeping reinterpretation of Abigail Adams' life story and of women's roles in the creation of the republic. Utilizing previously overlooked documents from a host of archives, Holton shows this the wife of the second ...