Excerpt from Abigail Adams by Woody Holton, plus links to reviews, author biography & more

Name: Abigail Adams
Rating: 5.0 (1 reviews)
Author: Woody Holton
ISBN: 9781416546801

Abigail Adams

by Woody Holton

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Nov 3, 2009, 512 pages

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Jun 2010, 512 pages

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Visitors to Abigail Adams's era can count on finding a multitude of familiar faces, but they must nonetheless proceed with caution, for her world is also full of surprises.

Excerpted from Abigail Adams by Woody Holton. Copyright © 2009 by Woody Holton. Excerpted by permission of Simon & Schuster. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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