Abigail Adams by Janet Whitney

Throughout our lives we have heard how women throughout floor strived to become the best. We have heard stories about women going a receivest society to gain equal rights and we have read about womanhood with comical share that pursued the history of this world. One of these women is Abigail cristals, the only woman so outlying(prenominal) to be both wife and mother of a president. Sadly, however, Abigail transports by Janet Whitney is furthermost from being a biography of her invigoration. Janet Whitney put ups her material in chronological presentation. She starts from how Abigail Adams and tin Adams fell in love and got married.She continues on with the biography describing how bum Adams came to administration as Abigail Adams gave birth to his kids one by one. The informant chose wisely to arrange her material in chronological order it helped better understand that beat period. Janet Whitney didnt make any assumptions about the knowledge of the reader, therefore ca refully describing each and every event during the life of Abigail and John Adams. The events were detailed and include many direct quotes from the diary of John Adams. Therefore, it was easier to visualize the majority of the classic events during the American Revolution.In society (the modern world especially) more(prenominal) and more females are looking to research on historical female figures that had an adjoin on the world. Janet Whitney intended to write this book for the female population besides failed to interest them in the midst of the biography. The title of the biography is enough to pull up and spark an interest in the reader, but as the reader continues reading, he/she will be filled with nothing but questions and disappointment. Up until the midriff of the biography, Abigail Adams is mentioned only when she becomes pregnant with John Adams babies.The rest of the counterbalance half of the biography is an in-depth illustration of John Adams accomplishments. Ab igail Adams is mentioned as merely a sidekick to John Adams succeeder and a great companion. She is outlined as the most intellectual woman John Adams has ever met. Throughout the book the cause describes in great depth and detail about the history that took view during the time of John and Abigail Adams. She seems to have great knowledge on the American Revolution and describes many detailed descriptions about John Adams life.Although the antecedent does describe the events leading up to the American Revolution, the author fails to depict the role of Abigail Adams in the lives of her husband and others. I believe that the author thinks of Abigail Adams as an unflattering topic, which is teetotal because the author decided to write a biography about her. The author wrote the biography in a way that seems like John Adams is the shine up of the life of Abigail Adams and that Abigail Adams was a small influence in the road to establishment for John Adams.The judgements of the author are not directly states in the biography. and there are authorized parts of the book that shows an indirect opinion of Abigail Adams. As quoted in the biography, the author writes, She freely expresses her longing to see himshe freely expresses her reliability on himand the extent to how much she needs him in her life. (Whitney pageboy 113). The author believes that Abigail Adams felt like she needed John Adams in her life because she relied on him so much. Nowhere in biography does the author acknowledgment specific evidence as to why and where Abigail would say this.This also highlights the disputation I said previously, the author believes Abigail to be an unflattering topic. The quote higher up describes Abigail as a needy, un-intellectual woman. The majority of the information the author used were from letter and diaries and biographies of other big historical figures such as John Adams, genus Benzoin Franklin, John Jay, and Thomas Hutchinson. Most of the biograp hy was filled with quotes from first helping hand sources as the diary of Thomas Jefferson and letters written by John Adams.The quotes mostly described the setting of the time period rather than the important expand. For example, it described the physical appearances of Abigail and John Adams and described the major and minor details of the houses and towns they lived in. The author did an excellent job at giving the reader a window into the time in which Abigail Adams lived. The historical documents used as a reference for the writing of this biography were constantly quotes to give us a visual as to what events were taking place. The author wrote pages describing a single certain event.Janet Whitney would not only quote from her first- hand sources, but she would describe and apologize the quote as well to prevent any confusion. For example, Janet Whitney quotes in the biography, The flare out is kindled and like lightning it catches from soul to soul. Although the mind is sh ocked at the sight of shedding human blood, more especially the blood of our countrymen and a gracious war is of all wars the most dreadful This creates a visual prove inside the readers head of how gory and gruesome the battles and fights were.Overall, I did not enjoy reading this biography. I was looking forward to acquirement about Abigail Adams and her influence on American history but as I read I was constantly disappointed. I didnt take that the whole book would be based on John Adams and how much of an effect he had on Abigail Adams life rather than how much of an effect Abigail Adams had in America. The biography was also written in an un-interesting way. It felt as if the author was just throwing information inside the text without putting effort into qualification it sound interesting.While reading the biography I would read everywhere numerous mentioning of dates, times, cities, towns and names of random village men who are extraneous to the life of Abigail Adams. This biography was a complete disappoint to its womens liberationist audience. Throughout our lives we have always heard about how much of an extraordinary person Abigail Adams was but none of that is depicted in this biography. I look forward to reading an actual biography of Abigail Adams a biography that doesnt portray Abigail Adams as someone whos constantly reliant on her husband.