"Dearest Friend"

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This paper looks at "Dearest Friend" by Lynne Withey. The author discusses the author's life and works, analysis and summarizes the book, examines the author's achievements of her thesis and goals, gives Withey's conclusion and opinions as a reader. Positive and negative aspects of the book are illustrated and it is concluded that the book is an educational read depicting the story of Abigail Adams, the unqualified minister's daughter, who became the most powerful and significant woman in Revolutionary America.

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"The book Dearest Friend by Lynne Withey started her professional career as an Assistant Director in a press in 1986 and later became an Associate Director in 1993, having the task for strategic planning along with general operations. Furthermore, she has played a very important part in shaping not only editorial programs but also assisted in obtaining books in music, history, Asian and Middle Eastern studies, and public health and even launched the Press's electronic publishing program.

Moreover, she is the writer of four books that also include the newly reissued Dearest Friend, A Life of Abigail Adams, and Voyages of Discovery: Captain Cook and British Exploration of the Pacific. As for her qualification, she is a graduate of Smith College in Northampton, Massachusetts, and majored in American Studies and from the University of California, Berkeley she later received a Ph.D. in history. From 1974 till the year 1979 at the University of Iowa, she was an assistant professor of history as well as at Boston University she was a visiting assistant professor from the year 1977 till 1978."

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