If you read about how Abigail Adams, proto-feminist and wife of the second president of the United States, was able to exert unprecedented control over her family finances here, you’ll want to know more about not only her, but also the people surrounding her: her mother; Benjamin Franklin; James Lovell; John Quincy; and John, her [...]
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By Woody Holton
As I researched ABIGAIL ADAMS my most startling discovery was that the subject of my biography was not only a First Lady and proto feminist but a junk bond dealer. She bought up Revolutionary War bonds (many of which had been inveigled from the veterans of Saratoga and Valley Forge at a fraction [...]
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