Stars: 4
Review by: Mandy Apgar
There are so
many people in this to keep track of and thusly that is why it is rated a
four. Elsewise it is a perfect biography of our nation's oft ignored
second president - a man who held many roles
as a founding father. Born into kind of lower middle class, he becomes a
lawyer but is often seen as a hardscrabble sort due to his bulldog hold
on his opinions and a lack of funds to make his way into upper society.
He of course marries, the formidable "dearest
friend" Abigail. (Who is also an oft ignored person and the book goes
into quite a bit of detail of her life.) When the revolution interrupts
their family's existence he makes a name for himself as a man able to
accomplish often punishing tasks - such as the
time earlier when he endangered his practice to represent the soldiers
tried for the Boston Massacre (and got them off free). Although he
wanted to be remembered as a simple farmer, his retirement after
politics was anything but simple as the family farm became
swarming with associated grandchildren and a daughter in law - the
result of his daughter Nabby (Abigail) Adams Smith's regrettable
marriage to a yutz and her early death from breast cancer, and the widow
and family of his youngest n'er do well son. Dying on
July 4th, he passed almost at the same time as his friend Thomas
Jefferson (a man who turned on Adams politically years earlier) having
outlived his beloved Abigail by some years.
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