The late Margery Heffron was an independent writer and scholar.
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
*New Yorker*
A “sparkling biography”: “Readers will . . . be grateful for this
fascinating, if partial, portrait of an exceptional
woman.”—Virginia DeJohn Anderson, New York Times Book Review, cover
review
*New York Times Book Review*
“Insightful and entertaining.”—Susan Dunn, New York Review of
Books
*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
*Books & Culture*
Editors’ Choice, New York Times Book Review
*New York Times Book Review*
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