Abigail Adams was a Mighty Girl. She would have felt right at home in almost any time, but her time — the beginning of our nation — was particularly fraught. “Remember The Ladies” both admonition and battle cry for almost any time but it was her plea to give women the vote, a true voice in their own lives.
A Love Like No Other: Abigail and John Adams, A Modern Love Story gives context to the personalities and problems of the founding of the nation. Abigail’s story is one of passion, heartbreak, scandal and triumph. Abigail bore John six children and struggled to raise, educate and launch them while he struggled to launch a career and a new nation. An uncommon partnership in any time. During the months and years apart, Abigail suffered the fears of any woman not only for her lover’s safety but his fidelity. On her own with small children during the Revolution, she scraped together enough to pay the taxes only to have Congress renounce the currency, forcing her to start all over again from nothing. Though she was John’s advisor and trusted partner -- she single-handedly ran the family farm, bought and sold land, invested the meager profits and bartered for their sons’ school fees while he was away -- John, probably our most irascible Founding Father, turned a deaf ear when she demanded women’s right to vote be included in the US Constitution.
Proud of her lineage, she was faced with her family’s shame. Worse, she was forced to watch helplessly as two of her children ended their lives in squalor on the eve of John’s, greatest triumph. John and Abigail’s lives and times -- like ours -- were tumultuous, demanding and uncertain. Abigail’s concerns are as modern as those of any woman today - retaining her own identity while sacrificing for her family, maintaining a loving, faithful marriage despite temptations to shatter it, raising children in the face of innumerable dangers, and finding the money to make it all work. A Love Like No Other is a timeless story of struggle, ambition, heartbreak and triumph, but most of all it’s the story of an enduring love against all odds.