New York: Knopf, 2010. First edition. Hardcover. Fine/fine. First edition, first printing. A fine, fresh apparently unread copy in equally fine dust jacket. Hardcover. 299 pp. with index. Pulitzer Prize-winning author of "Founding Brothers" brings America's preeminent first couple to life in this moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic's tenuous early years. The first meeting between the two---John was twenty four and Abigail fifteen--was inauspicious and each was entirely unimpressed with each other. They soon, however, started a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the decades, they were apart more than they were together, with John going to Philadelphia for the Continental Congress and later to France as minister to the court along side Benjamin Franklin. Abigail's health prevented her from joining him when he was elected the new nation's first Vice President; the two would be together for John's Presidency and were the first residents of the partially completed White House.

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Joseph J. Ellis won the Pulitzer Prize for Founding Brothers. His portrait of Thomas Jefferson, American Sphinx , won the National Book Award. He is the Ford Foundation Professor of History at Mount Holyoke College in Massachusetts, where he lives with his wife and their youngest son.

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Bookseller: The Old Book Shop of Bordentown (ABNJ) (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #: E26711
Title: First Family: Abigail and John Adams
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Format/Binding: Hardcover
Book Condition: Used - Fine
Jacket Condition: fine
Quantity Available: 1
Edition: First edition
ISBN 10: 0307269620
ISBN 13: 9780307269621
Publisher: Knopf
Place of Publication: New York
Date Published: 2010
Keywords: presidents, first lady, first ladies, massachussets, american revolution, wives, white house,

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The Old Book Shop of Bordentown is a general used/rare bookshop open to the public Tues.-Sunday 11AM to 5PM (8 PM on Fridays). 10,000 books on premises with another 25,000 in stock. Areas of speciality include baseball, New Jersey, American literature, mysteries. Member, ABAA, ILAB,Antiquarian Booksellers of New Jersey. Located in historic Bordentown City, New Jeresy (est. 1682).

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