Akers, Charles. Abigail Adams: An American Women. Boston: Brown, Little and Company, 1980.
Abigail Adams: An American Women written by Charles W. Akers. This book was based on Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the first vice president of the United States and second president of the United States, and mother of the United States’ sixth president, John Quincy Adams. The book follows her life, from her parents’ lives before she was born to meeting John and fighting for women 's rights. Throughout her whole life she always fought for women 's rights. She tried to get John Adams, her husband, to take what she believed in and tell the nation about it. The authors purpose was to depict the importance of Abigail’s life through words …show more content…
He sometimes seemed very repetitive and put some irrelevant facts and information about Abigail and her life. For example, throughout the first couple of pages he repeatedly wrote about how she didn 't have an education but learned to read and write from her mother. Then how she and her two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth had a tutor and more information about him. Then he goes on about her favorite poet. It dragged on throughout those first couple of pages. Instead of five pages, he could have written all of that in less than a page and the reader still would have understood. It was unnecessary and it without a doubt will bore the …show more content…
It depicts and bring Abigail 's letters, hers and the ones exchanged with her family and John, to life with words. He makes it easier for the reader to understand the letters, especially by how he writes about them in such an understanding way. He truly does have a great gift of writing to the extend.
Charles W. Akers used many resources throughout this book. At the end of the book he list resources he used and many of them are secondary resource and some are primary. The main primary one is the letters of Abigail Adams and her family. “Most of these letters are in the Adams Papers, the collection of family manuscripts now located at the Massachusetts Historical Society.” (Akers(193)) Some other primary resources are “Diary and Autobiography of John Adams” written by L. H. Butterfield, “The Earliest Diary of John Adams” by L. H. Butterfield, “ Portraits of John and Abigail Adams” by Andrew Oliver, and “ Papers of John Adams” by Robert J. Taylor.
Akers mentions many and many secondary resources. Some are “Abigail Adams and Her TImes” by Laura E. Richards, “Abigail Adams” by Janet Whitney, and the most important to Akers, “John Adams” by Page Smith. He used so many more secondary sources that 's it 's too many to list, it would take up a lot of pages of the
Abigail Adams: An American Women written by Charles W. Akers. This book was based on Abigail Adams, the wife of John Adams, the first vice president of the United States and second president of the United States, and mother of the United States’ sixth president, John Quincy Adams. The book follows her life, from her parents’ lives before she was born to meeting John and fighting for women 's rights. Throughout her whole life she always fought for women 's rights. She tried to get John Adams, her husband, to take what she believed in and tell the nation about it. The authors purpose was to depict the importance of Abigail’s life through words …show more content…
He sometimes seemed very repetitive and put some irrelevant facts and information about Abigail and her life. For example, throughout the first couple of pages he repeatedly wrote about how she didn 't have an education but learned to read and write from her mother. Then how she and her two sisters, Mary and Elizabeth had a tutor and more information about him. Then he goes on about her favorite poet. It dragged on throughout those first couple of pages. Instead of five pages, he could have written all of that in less than a page and the reader still would have understood. It was unnecessary and it without a doubt will bore the …show more content…
It depicts and bring Abigail 's letters, hers and the ones exchanged with her family and John, to life with words. He makes it easier for the reader to understand the letters, especially by how he writes about them in such an understanding way. He truly does have a great gift of writing to the extend.
Charles W. Akers used many resources throughout this book. At the end of the book he list resources he used and many of them are secondary resource and some are primary. The main primary one is the letters of Abigail Adams and her family. “Most of these letters are in the Adams Papers, the collection of family manuscripts now located at the Massachusetts Historical Society.” (Akers(193)) Some other primary resources are “Diary and Autobiography of John Adams” written by L. H. Butterfield, “The Earliest Diary of John Adams” by L. H. Butterfield, “ Portraits of John and Abigail Adams” by Andrew Oliver, and “ Papers of John Adams” by Robert J. Taylor.
Akers mentions many and many secondary resources. Some are “Abigail Adams and Her TImes” by Laura E. Richards, “Abigail Adams” by Janet Whitney, and the most important to Akers, “John Adams” by Page Smith. He used so many more secondary sources that 's it 's too many to list, it would take up a lot of pages of the