Abigail Adams (1744-1818) and Mercy Otis Warren (l728-1814) saw no conflict between their domestic responsibilities and their political activities. During the Revolutionary period, when John Adams was frequently absent due to public service, Mrs. Adams skillfully managed her home and her family's financial affairs and provided her husband with political news and analysis. Warren, sister of the patriot James Otis and Wife of Massachusetts politician James Warren, expressed her support for the Revolution in poems, plays, and political satires. After the Revolution, Adams used her exterisive political knowledge acquired through voracious reading of newspapers,private conversations, and a wide cilrcle of correspondents, to act as political adviser to both her husband and her son, John Quincy Adams. She also used private correspondence to spread her and her husband's political views. Similarly, Warren used private correspondence, often with her close friends Abigail and...