Presents a view of colonial life, revolutionary ferment, and the birth of a new nation, as reported in the long, observant, and insightful letters of the wife of John Adams and mother of John Quincy Adams.

"To many Americans, Thomas Jefferson is the architect of our freedom. And yet the author of the Declaration of Independence also participated in a society that depended on slavery, and was himself the owner of slaves. How are we to reconcile this contradiction? This new life of Jefferson by Natalie S. Bober does not evade this difficult question." "From the first page, we are taken into Jefferson's world, to help us understand what it meant to be...

A collection of poems using the theme of imagination, by writers from Shelley and Robert Louis Stevenson to Eve Merriam and Shel Silverstein.