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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 15 (Hardcover)
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Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 15 (Hardcover)
Series: Adams Papers
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John and Abigail Adams remained fully engaged in American political
life after they left Washington, DC, for retirement in Quincy. A
highlight of Volume 15 of Adams Family Correspondence is a series
of letters between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson that debated
fundamental questions of the nation’s tumultuous early years. A
new generation rose in prominence in the period covered in the
volume, with John Quincy Adams returning from abroad to take a seat
in the United States Senate just in time to break with the
Federalists and support the Louisiana Purchase. The family
commented on other events of the era—Jefferson’s dismantling of
John Adams’s judicial reforms, the mobilization of the US Navy
for the Barbary wars, the growing bane of British impressment, and
the duel that killed Alexander Hamilton. Equally compelling family
stories emerge in the volume’s 251 letters. The failure of a
British banking firm proved calamitous to the family’s finances,
compelling John Quincy to quietly finance his parents’
retirement. Thomas Boylston Adams, acting as an occasional editor
of the Port Folio, carved out his public persona as a man of
letters. Louisa Catherine Adams wrote of motherhood and adjusting
to a new country of residence while providing a spirited
perspective on Washington society. As always, the heart of Adams
Family Correspondence is Abigail Adams, who survived a near-fatal
fall to continue providing letters of insight and wit that once
again show why the correspondence of the Adams family is a national
treasure.
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