Abigail Adams 2
Akers describes Abigail Adams as "the nation's best informed woman on public affairs, while never overstepping...the line nature had drawn between the sexes." This is the books main idea of course, based on the life of Abigail Adams. She influenced her husband and second president, John Adams as well as her son and sixth president, John Quincy Adams. Akers portrays how John Adams saw Abigail as an intellectual equal in the confines in their own home. Her political philosphy was as wise and unpandering as her husband's. Often they would talk of politics, Abigail perhaps the superior in this subject. When they came to a conflict in ideas, Abigail gently persuaded her husband in his views. Abigail pressed John on the importance of emancipation of women but never went beyond him or a few close friends. "She could not expect to be more than a private observer and supporter of her husband's political career." She gently taunted John of those few queens who had ruled as monarchs and had been generally good sovereigns. Thus, she wanted republican women to be good sovereigns. Abigail declared to her husband, "my ambition will extend no further than Reigning in the Heart of my husband." She thought women should work as har
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Approximate Word count = 876
Approximate Pages = 4 (250 words per page double spaced)
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