Abigail Adams was an amazing woman. No—that compliment cuts in half her talents and her ardor. She was an amazing human being. “Faced with the unfamiliar task of providing financially for her children while her husband was in Europe for four years, Abigail used her imagination and discovered talents she hadn’t realized she possessed to accomplish her goal,” Natalie S. Bober wrote in the “Foreword” to her 1995 biography of this heroine. Bober noted that Adams “must be viewed as a woman of her times, and in her own context.” “She spoke out strongly for education for women and for legal status equal to that of men, but she valued the domestic role as the greatest in her life,” Bober wrote. “For her, a woman who spoke with wisdom was not ‘inconsistent’ with one who ‘cheerfully’ attended to her household.” In her constancy to her country and to her husband and …