The Book of Abigail & John: Selected Letters of the Adams Family 1762-1784 - Softcover

L.H. Butterfield and Marc Friedlaender, as editor in chief and editor, respectively, were long identified with the publication of The Adams Papers at the Massachusetts Historical Society. Mary-Jo Kline was Associate Editor of The Adams Papers. David McCullough is the author of the best-selling John Adams and the Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, Truman.

"[John and Abigail] wrote to each other as 'dearest friend' with an ardor about each other, a realism about the world, and exaltation of the Revolution, that lifts these 'familiar letters' above anything 'familiar' I can think of in the writings of America's classical leaders." --Alfred Kazin, New Republic

"ÝJohn and Abigail¨ wrote to each other as 'dearest friend' with an ardor about each other, a realism about the world, and exaltation of the Revolution, that lifts these 'familiar letters' above anything 'familiar' I can think of in the writings of America's classical leaders." --Alfred Kazin, New Republic