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Whether you're a new teacher or a seasoned veteran, preparing lessons for Relief Society just got easier with The Ready Resource for Relief Society: Joseph Smith. Author Kimberly S. Shaffer has provided a lesson summary, pertinent quotes from General Authorities, and relevant hymns for each lesson in the manual. In addition, each lesson features a helpful and attractively designed handout that you can copy for each Relief Society sister. With the groundwork done for you, you can now concentrate on the fun part of giving lessons -personalizing it to fit your ideas and the needs of the sisters in your ward. Take the stress out of preparing lessons, and focus on giving Relief Society lessons that will touch the hearts of the sisters in your ward. With invaluable help like this, lesson preparation has never been so simple! ... Read more

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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years.
John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story.

Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious—John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later.

Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John’s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses’ union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father’s absence.

John was elected the nation’s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail’s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: “I can do nothing,” John told Abigail after his election, “without you.”

In Ellis’s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail’s relationship unfolds in the context of America’s birth as a nation.


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Fascinating story of John and Abigail
Joseph Ellis continues his string of successes with another great book on the American Revolution.This book looks at the relationship between John and Abigail Adams shedding new light on how the preeminent political team and first dynasty in America shared their intimate thoughts with one another.Utilizing letters between the two, (of which we have many due to the volume of time they spent apart) as well as sources from their children, Ellis is able to paint a vibrant picture of life in early America and explore how these patriots contributed towards their cause.From the shrewd political mind of Abigail to the limitless ambitions of John's vanity we see how two people shaped the course of the United States.This book also provides a look at John Quincy Adams as the heir apparent and one who was groomed for greatness. Little has been written in depth on JQA particularly his childhood so this was a very interesting account. Overall another wonderful book and one that sheds new light on how this family operated in American history.

Another Winner...
...from Joseph J. Ellis, who already has to his credit several excellent books of American history - including one that won a Pulitzer Prize - about the men who guided the American Revolution and the founding of the United States.In "First Family," he turns his attention to the 12-hundred or so letters that make up the decades-long "conversation . . . of unexpected intimacy and candor" between Abigail and John Adams that is "more revealing than any other correspondence between a prominent American husband and wife in American history."

After first encountering the letters some years ago, Ellis resolved one day to "read all their letters and tell the full story of their conversation within the context of America's creation as a people and a nation."He has now done so brilliantly, bringing these two intelligent people to life before us.He does not do this in isolation.He covers the historical context of the times with gratifying clarity.His writing is superb, carrying the reader along effortlessly to the point of making it difficult to put the book down.

I cannot recommend "First Family" too highly to anyone who has a scintilla of interest in the people who launched the United States.

A first-rate biography of a great partnership
This is an informative and well-crafted book that is the best presentation and analysis that I have come across of a partnership that is both inspiring in itself and the best-documented in history. It has some limitations but if you are interested in the social rather than political elements of the early Republic, this is a book I highly recommend. Here are the standout features:
1. It offers a convincing and rich portrayal of the long partnership between the brilliant, morally brave, totally honest and equally quite weird - perhaps even mentally disturbed - John Adams and his stable, supportive but independent wife Abigail. It is very unlikely that Adams could have held to his steadfast course without a true equal, with all his insecurities, feelings of being unappreciated, his ability to say the wrong thing at the wrong time, and his self-importance. Abigail comes across as very grounded, shrewd and anchored in reality, far unlike her husband at times. The book doesn't stray into psychobabble or add romantic flourishes; it just presents the story as we know it from the evidence, most obviously the couple's letters to each other. Professor Ellis is judicious in his selection from these, building the reader's sense of confidence in his judgment. One small touch that illustrates this is the sense in the correspondence that the pair really enjoyed their sex life. This is not discussed in depth nor ignored, but is just part of the complete sketching of the picture, delicately handled.
2. It shows the complex dynamics of a family - Abigail's strengths, commonsense and management skills, the family investment in the superstar son, John Quincy Adams, the disappointments of other children, with business failures, poor marriage choices and death from chronic alcohol abuse. It's very much a partnership at work - John persistently trying to do the right thing and Abigail keeping it all together.
3. It brings out the very heavy burdens and price paid by the couple in Adam's truly patriotic service; the long, multi-year absences in France and England where their letters were infrequent, cautiously phrased because of the fear of their being intercepted by the British Navy in the many weeks it took for them to be conveyed across the Atlantic, and the frustrations each had to deal with but could not easily complain about. For me, this was one of the strongest elements of the book.
4. It has the right balance - enough depth to make it a serious contribution and enough pace and selectivity to make it a good read.
It has some limitations. It is not exciting, though it flows well. There's nothing new in the book - a strength as well as a limitation. It organizes material that is widely available and stays in the centrist mainstream, with no revisionist theory. Ellis doesn't play games with history; as he states in his opening he offers a "biography of a partnership." If you are already pretty familiar with the politics and personalities, this may not offer much. It takes the viewpoint of Adams and doesn't throw much light on Washington, who remains a background enigma. It has a marked flavor of being anti-Hamilton, Adam's villain and the most powerful political driver of the times. It continues the increasingly consensual puncturing of Franklin's skilled self-advertising and portrays him as a double-dealing egotist. It covers Jefferson in more detail because of the centrality of their friendship and its breakdown. By and large, he takes Adam's side on the issues of Anglo- versus Franco-relationships.
A good book, a quiet pleasure, and an explanation of why Professor Ellis wins Pulitzer Prizes for his books.

A concise and excellent biography of a great love.
There's nothing new here that you haven't seen before in the HBO mini series and the wonderful McCullough biography from a few years back, but this time, the story of John Adams, one of our most foremost founding fathers, is told through the eyes of his relationship to his dear friend Abigail. The two of them wrote so often to each other, and so many of their letters have been preserved, that we find a significant portion of the history of the beginning of the USA through their pens. So anything that is written about them is more than a little worth reading.

I would have to say that the aforementioned McCullough biography is probably the best biography I ever read, but Joseph Ellis tells the same story in fewer pages, and gives us just a slightly different slant on the story, and for those who just don't have the stomach or the time for a very very long book, the whole thing is told in about 250 pages.

There are great leadership lessons here, nice examples of how a couple works out some big family problems, amidst a grand and readable biography that will most likely give Ellis the attention he's also gotten with his previous works on the same period.

I found the book a bit short, I wanted more, but then again, there is ALWAYS another wonderful biography from that period to read. Bravo!

A Great First Family
Joseph Ellis has once again done a remarkable job in taking us back to early American history in this account of Abigail and John Adams. Truly, they were probably the most unique and close First Family of our Nation.
We are fortunate that Abigail and John maintained constant contact throughout their marriage with a multitude of letters and notes that have been preserved from their day. As a result, the author had an abundance of personal information from which to draw and as a result has given us insight that goes beyond mere historical documentation.
John was a determined man, set in his own ideas and very much opposed to partisan politics. Abigail was always there, if not in person, then by letters of encouragement and often helpful advice.
Through this personal account the reader will feel a close encounter with the lives of these two great Americans. You will follow John's career from the defending of the British soldiers in the Boston Massacre to his presidency and to his final days. You will feel the pain and suffering he endured with so many personal problems with his children as well as his heartaches from friends who turned on him. The beauty of the story is Abigail was always there for him.
This is a great look at history and a family that had so much impact in our founding years. It's a great read and I know you will enjoy it.
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Whether you re a new teacher or a seasoned veteran, preparing lessons for Relief Society just got easier with The Ready Resource for Relief Society: Joseph Smith. Author Kimberly S. Shaffer has provided a lesson summary, pertinent quotes from General Authorities, and relevant hymns for each lesson in the manual. In addition, each lesson features a helpful and attractively designed handout. With invaluable help like this, lesson preparation has never been so simple! ... Read more

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From the author: Objective: The current study compared alcoholics who entered treatment for the first time with those who had reported one or more prior treatment experiences using a large sample (N = 1,362) of alcoholics who entered the National Institute on Alcohol Abuse and Alcoholism-sponsored COMBINE (Combining Medications and Behavioral Interventions) Study of pharmacological and behavioral treatment efficacy. Method: Participants were categorized into three prior-treatment groups: (1) treatment naive (n = 691, 50.73%), (2) one to two prior treatments (n = 380, 27.90%), or (3) three or more prior treatments (n = 291, 21.37%). Groups were compared at baseline on multiple drinking and psychosocial variables. Results: The treatment-naive group was more likely to be female, educated, married, and employed. They reported the lowest levels of drinks per drinking day, average drinks per day, alcohol dependence, craving, and alcohol-related consequences; but, they had the oldest age at onset of alcohol problems. Both the treatment-naive group and the one-to-two prior-treatment group had lower percentage days abstinent within the prior 30 days, compared with the three-or-more group (22% and 25% vs 32%, respectively). The treatment-naive group reported the least commitment to an abstinence goal (43% vs 70% and 80%, respectively) and the lowest mean number of Alcoholics Anonymous meetings attended (0.86 vs 3.10 vs 6.91, respectively). They also reported fewer psychological symptoms, less distress, and higher levels of quality of life on physical, emotional, and environmental domains, as well as social relationships. Conclusions: Results suggest that a greater understanding of treatment-naive versus treatment-experienced clients may provide a better profile of help-seeking behavior and may suggest different approaches to treatment.

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