John's first extant letter to Abigail is addressed to "Miss Adorable." In her first extant letter to him she refers to herself as "...your Sincere Diana." That the ambitious farmer's son and the independent parson's daughter truly loved reading and writing is readily apparent from the beginning in this most extensive collection of their forty year correspondence ever published. That they loved their country, their families, and mostly each other is never in question. No history and no biography has ever revealed these remarkable Americans half as well as do they themselves in their letters. This handsome volume (superb color plates) from Harvard's Belknap Press, in partnership with the Massachusetts Historical Society, presents their life's journey from courtship to retirement. Along the way Abigail and John write openly and brilliantly about both their personal (even absolutely intimate) lives and the revolutionary era in which they lived. Meet the Adamses; perhaps America's most extraordinary and admirable husband and wife. In many ways this is THEIR BOOK...and their story makes for memorable reading. HIGHEST RECOMMENDATION