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Household Gods : The Religious Lives of the Adams Family
\"Household Gods is a 300-year story of religious exploration and discovery, as told by early America's first family, the Adamses of Massachusetts, as they navigated faith and doubt in the growing nation--and beyond\"-- Provided by publisher.
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A Marriage That Defied Separation And War
FIRST FAMILY Abigail and John Adams By Joseph J. Ellis 299 pages.
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Not-so-strange bedfellows
He lived on a magnificent 26 years, long enough to achieve apotheosis on the 50th anniversary of the Declaration of Independence, along with Thomas Jefferson (the greatest stage exits in American history). [...] over the years Adams has staged a revival, crawling back inch by inch, first to respectability, then to something like greatness, and finally to the popularity that eluded this prickly character in his lifetime. \"First Family\" reminds us that in certain presidencies (FDR and Clinton spring to mind), there is no closer adviser than a brilliant spouse, improving the thoughts of her husband, often before he has even conceived them.
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Founding Fathers
Barack Obama is a doting father who says that one of the greatest pleasures of his presidency is eating dinner with his daughters on the nights when he is in town. The Founders' children and grandchildren kept company with an aristocratic power elite, savored Continental fads and fashions, and learned to speak fluent French.
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Adams family values
\"It is simply expected that members of the family will be successful,\" said Peter Adams, a decorated Vietnam War veteran, commercial banker, and past president of several nonprofit organizations.
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America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918
\"America's First Dynasty: The Adamses, 1735-1918\" by Richard Brookhiser is reviewed.
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Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility
Pearsall reviews Abigail and John Adams: The Americanization of Sensibility by G. J. Barker-Benfield.
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