First Family

El autor ganador del Premio Pulitzer y superventas de Founding Brothers and His Excellency da vida a la preeminente primera pareja de Estados Unidos en una narrativa conmovedora e iluminadora que recorre la Revolución Americana y los tenues primeros años de la república.

Ellis describe el primer encuentro entre los dos como desfavorable: John tenía 24 años, Abigail solo 15, y ninguno estaba impresionado el uno con el otro. Pero pronto comenzaron una apasionada correspondencia que resultó en su matrimonio cinco años después.

Durante las próximas décadas, la pareja estuvo separada casi tanto como lo estuvieron juntos. La carrera política de John lo llevó primero a Filadelfia, donde se convirtió en el más audaz defensor de las medidas que conducirían a la Declaración de Independencia. Sin embargo, para poder asistir al Segundo Congreso Continental, dejó a su esposa e hijos en medio de la zona de guerra que para entonces había sumido a Massachusetts. Más tarde fue enviado a París, donde se desempeñó como ministro de la corte de Francia junto a Benjamin Franklin. Estos años separados acentuaron la unión de los Adams casi más allá de lo que podía soportar: Abigail se sentía sola, mientras que los niños Adams sufrían por la ausencia de su padre.

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The Pulitzer Prize-winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.

John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: Both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than 12,000 letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story.

Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious - John was24, Abigail just 15, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later.

Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John’s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses’ union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father’s absence.