“…Abigail Adams Letters of March 31 and May 7 1776…”
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“…Abigail Adams Letters of March 31 and May 7 1776…”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…George Washington -- John Adams and Abigail Adams -- Thomas Jefferson and John Randolph -- Benjamin Franklin and William Franklin -- The Collapse of the Colonial Government -- Punishing Loyalists -- First Families to First Exiles -- John Jay, Peter Van Schaack, Gouverneur Morris and Alexander Hamilton of New York -- Pennsylvania -- Convinced by Love -- Schools and Colleges -- William Hooper and His Brothers -- Loyalist Warriors -- John Singleton Copley -- Exiled to England -- The Envy of the American States -- Returning Home -- Enemies of the American People?…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…"Different strokes for different folks" : American proverbs as an international, national, and global phenomenon -- "Government of the people, by the people, for the people" : the making and meaning of an American proverb about democracy -- "God helps them who help themselves" : proverbial resolve in the letters of Abigail Adams -- "A house divided against itself cannot stand" : from biblical proverb to Abraham Lincoln and beyond -- "Do unto others as you would have them do unto you" : Frederick Douglass's proverbial struggle for civil rights -- "It's not a president's business to catch flies" : proverbial rhetoric in presidential inaugural addresses -- "We are all in the same boat now" : proverbial discourse in the Churchill-Roosevelt correspondence -- "Good fences make good neighbors" : the sociopolitical significance of an ambiguous proverb…”
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“…John and Abigail Adams left a remarkable portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was the more gifted), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. …”

“…In particular, the more than one thousand surviving letters between John and Abigail Adams, nearly half of which have never been published, provide extraordinary access to their private lives and make it possible to know John Adams as no other major American of his founding era. …”
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“…His warm friendship with John and Abigail Adams endured till their deaths, and John Quincy Adams continued the friendship. …”