Heffron’s “agreeably written biography” “allow[s] Louisa to emerge as a subject herself. In the process, she also becomes newly convincing as a source, especially in connection with her husband’s complicated, grinding ambition, a quality she discerned beneath his cloak of rectitude.”—Thomas Mallon, New Yorker
Thomas Mallon
New Yorker
A “sparkling biography”: “Readers will . . . be ... Read moregrateful for this fascinating, if partial, portrait of an exceptional woman.”—Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New York Times Book Review, cover review
Virginia DeJohn Anderson
New York Times Book Review
“Insightful and entertaining.”—Susan Dunn, New York Review of Books
Susan Dunn
New York Review of Books
“Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams has long been an unjustly overlooked First Lady. . . . In retrospect, Louisa Catherine Adams remains one of the major First Ladies of the 19th century, comparable to Dolley Madison.”—Daniel Walker Howe, Books & Culture
Daniel Walker Howe
Books & Culture
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