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Louisa Thomas

Louisa

The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams

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From the author of Mind and Matter, an intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time Born in London to an American father and a British mother on the eve of the Revolutionary War, Louisa Catherine Johnson was raised in circumstances very different from the New England upbringing of the future president John Quincy Adams, whose life had been dedicated to public service from the earliest age. And yet John Quincy fell in love with her, almost despite himself. Their often tempestuous but deeply close marriage lasted half a century. They lived in Pr… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-101-98082-8
  • EAN: 9781101980828
  • Produktnummer: 18553349
  • Verlag: Penguin Publishing Group
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2016
  • Seitenangabe: 512 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Masse: 1'226 KB

Über den Autor


Louisa Thomas is the author of Mind and Matter: A Life in Math and Football, and Conscience: Two Soldiers, Two Pacifists, One Family-a Test of Will and Faith in World War I. She is a contributor to the New Yorker's website, a former writer and editor for Grantland, and a former fellow at the New America Foundation. Her writing has appeared in the New York Times, Vogue, The Paris Review, and other places.

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