What a splendid, moving book!...No one who reads this chronicle of the remarkable Adams women will forget them, or look upon their time in quite the same way again. -- David McCullough A sensitive evocation of the lives of the Adams women...Deeply informative and a pleasure to read. -- Robert Middlekauff

From his vast storehouse of knowledge about the Adams family. Nagelpulls out the feminine threads of that tapestry to write all about the Adams women, from Abigail to daughter Nabby, from Louisa Catherine Adams, wife of John Quincy, to Clover Adams, wife of Henry, with others making more than cameo appearances. They all lived exceptional, if not extraordinary, lives, in different ways.

"Nagel's research is assiduous, his prose fluid and compelling." - The Village Voice

"Splendid...[an] admirably, often eloquently, written book." - The Boston Globe