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To mark the 10th anniversary of the Inside The New York Times Book Review podcast, we’ll be recording an episode live on April 28 at The Times building in New York City. We’re giving away 10 pairs of tickets to 10 lucky listeners. To enter the giveaway, email your full name and phone number to BookReviewGiveaway@nytimes.com. The full giveaway rules can be found here. This giveaway closes on April 17 and prize winners will be notified within a few days.
On this week’s podcast, Louisa Thomas discusses her new biography of Louisa Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams. In her review of the book,Joanne Freeman writes:
Louisa Catherine Adams lived a life that seems made for the telling. Born in London at the dawning of the American Revolution to a father who was American and a mother who was English, she spent her early years in Europe, first with her family, then as the wife of a diplomat who went on to become president, John Quincy Adams. With — and without — her husband, she traveled the world, hobnobbing with royalty, then settled in America, where she toiled to gain him the presidency. Accomplished, ambitious, socially skilled and keenly observant, she was a formidable woman with an extraordinary life, just as the subtitle of this book promises.
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