Akers describes Abigail Adams as "the nation's best informed woman on public affairs, while never overstepping...the line nature had drawn between the sexes." This is the books main idea of course, based on the life of Abigail Adams. She influenced her husband and second president, John Adams as well as her son and sixth president, John Quincy Adams. Akers portrays how John Adams saw Abigail as an intellectual equal in the confines in their …showed first 75 words of 799 total…

…showed last 75 words of 799 total…acceptance of the idea that Adams was eager for war with France." Despite this argument the few reviews contradicting Abigail Adams: An American Woman have had more good things to say of Aker's publication than bad. I would recommend this book for other students because it gives insight of the role of American women during the Revolution. It goes into immense detail of the life of the Adamses and other historical figures of this period.