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Adams\'s strength, courage, and wit (as well as her bouts of depression and gender conservatism) emerge more fully than they have in any previous work.... very well done, highly perceptive, and full of fresh ideas." --Wilson Library Bulletin ... " --American Historical Review Portia, a new study of Abigail Adams--modern feminism\'s favorite Founding Mother--is a refreshing change of pace." --San Francisco Chronicle ... best-of-all-biographies of Abigail Adams... ..