Most Adams biographers concentrate on the power couple’s enduring partnership, marriage and 40-year correspondence, but in the 528 pages of “Dear Abigail,” Diane Jacobs does something warm, real and different. The writings of passionate, principled Abigail, who urged her blunt, brilliant husband to “remember the ladies” when drafting a new code of laws for the nation, even popped up as lyrics in the Broadway musical “1776.”
Unlike Martha Washington, who destroyed nearly all correspondence with her illustrious spouse, John and Abigail Adams, present at the dawn of the American republic, knew that they wrote for posterity.Īs a result, their family papers, including Abigail’s more than 2,100 thoughtful, revealing letters, have been a magnet for scholars and material for a mother lode of Adams books.
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