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Author : Samuel Willard (M.D., LL. D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (944 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by Samuel Willard (M.D., LL. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1989 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 0393068277
Total Pages : 358 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (93 download)
Download or read book Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 2011-02-14 with total page 358 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An absorbing, insightful profile of the revolutionary leader, president, husband, and father from one of our best historians, now in a beautiful new package. John Adams was unique among the nation’s founders in leaving a record of his most intimate thoughts and feelings. Instinctively candid and politically incisive, Adams offers the clearest view of the ambitions and principles that drove the revolutionary generation. Passionate Sage offers a brilliant introduction to the second president: his politics, his affinities for family and friendship even with political opponents like Jefferson, and his enduring significance. “Ellis’s palpable affection lends a pleasing glow to his profile of Adams, which is why Passionate Sage is his best book.”—Judith Shulevitz, New York Times Book Review “Impassioned and erudite. . . . A captivating portrait of this Massachusetts native as a wonderfully contrary genius possessed of an uncommon moral intelligence and farsighted political wisdom.”—Michiko Kakutani, New York Times “The best portrait of a Revolutionary-era statesman.”—Evan Thomas, Wall Street Journal
Author : Peter Shaw
Publisher : UNC Press Books
ISBN 13 : 0807839833
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (78 download)
Download or read book The Character of John Adams written by Peter Shaw and published by UNC Press Books. This book was released on 2014-01-01 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw's penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. The account of Adams's twenty-five years of retirement after losing the presidency resolves some of the dilemmas arising from the long career of a man who was never really suited by temperament for politics. Originally published in 1976. A UNC Press Enduring Edition -- UNC Press Enduring Editions use the latest in digital technology to make available again books from our distinguished backlist that were previously out of print. These editions are published unaltered from the original, and are presented in affordable paperback formats, bringing readers both historical and cultural value.
Author : Samuel M. D. Willard, LL D.
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9781374348660
Total Pages : 138 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (486 download)
Download or read book JOHN ADAMS A CHARACTER SKETCH written by Samuel M. D. Willard, LL D. and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2016-08-29 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.
Author : John Ferling
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199752737
Total Pages : 545 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by John Ferling and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010-02-09 with total page 545 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. Indeed, few were more instrumental in making American independence a reality. He performed yeoman's service in the Continental Congress during the revolution and was a key figure in negotiating the treaty that brought peace following the long War of Independence. He held the highest office in the land and as president he courageously chose to pursue a course that he thought best for the nation, though it was fraught with personal political dangers. Adams emerges here a man full of contradictions. He could be petty and jealous, but also meditative, insightful, and provocative. In private and with friends he could be engagingly witty. He was terribly self-centered, but in his relationship with his wife and children his shortcomings were tempered by a deep, abiding love. John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 141657588X
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (165 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by David McCullough and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.
Author : The Library The Library of Congress
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522923282
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (232 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by The Library The Library of Congress and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-27 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the building of a house, one man must be supreme. The plan must be the product of one mind; if there are suggestions of other minds as to plan and details, they are accepted or rejected, so that one mind finally arranges all. If the owner of the house chooses to leave the matter to an architect after telling him in general what he wants, the architect's one mind perfects plan and details. We often speak of the building of a state, and compare a state to a grand structure, a house, or temple. But the constitution of a state is never the work of one man. Even if a man is called an absolute ruler, an autocrat, czar, emperor, or tyrant, he really cannot do everything at his own will. Even in Turkey and Persia the sultan and shah find that men cannot be moved as if they were chessmen or checkermen. It has been said that Russia is an autocracy, tempered by assassination. Revolt and revolution dog the steps of tyranny.
Author : Alexander Hamilton
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Total Pages : 68 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Letter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States written by Alexander Hamilton and published by . This book was released on 1809 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Samuel Willard
Publisher : Forgotten Books
ISBN 13 : 9780267662173
Total Pages : 172 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (621 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by Samuel Willard and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-07-31 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from John Adams: A Character Sketch; Including Anecdotes, Characteristics, and Chronology, and John Adams' Speech on the Boston Massacre American young people, and old people too, if they have not thought over the question carefully, are apt to think that all governments should be like ours, demo cratic federated republican. If they should hear that in the western half of China the people had set up a repub lic, they would rejoice at the spread of free government. But experience shows that republics are suited only to very small com munities imbued with a stron g and narrow sense of patriotism and cohesion, or to well-trained lar ger peoples. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author : Samuel Willard (M.D., LL. D.)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 171 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (21 download)
Download or read book John Adams written by Samuel Willard (M.D., LL. D.) and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 171 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0375705244
Total Pages : 306 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (757 download)
Download or read book Founding Brothers written by Joseph J. Ellis and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2002-02-05 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • NATIONAL BESTSELLER • A landmark work of history explores how a group of greatly gifted but deeply flawed individuals—Hamilton, Burr, Jefferson, Franklin, Washington, Adams, and Madison—confronted the overwhelming challenges before them to set the course for our nation. “A splendid book—humane, learned, written with flair and radiant with a calm intelligence and wit.” —The New York Times Book Review The United States was more a fragile hope than a reality in 1790. During the decade that followed, the Founding Fathers—re-examined here as Founding Brothers—combined the ideals of the Declaration of Independence with the content of the Constitution to create the practical workings of our government. Through an analysis of six fascinating episodes—Hamilton and Burr’s deadly duel, Washington’s precedent-setting Farewell Address, Adams’ administration and political partnership with his wife, the debate about where to place the capital, Franklin’s attempt to force Congress to confront the issue of slavery and Madison’s attempts to block him, and Jefferson and Adams’ famous correspondence—Founding Brothers brings to life the vital issues and personalities from the most important decade in our nation’s history.
Author : Samuel Fallows
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Total Pages : 126 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)
Download or read book Samuel Adams written by Samuel Fallows and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 126 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Grant
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374530238
Total Pages : 560 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)
Download or read book John Adams: Party of One written by James Grant and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2005 with total page 560 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A biography of the revolutionary, founding father, and second president of the United States explores his origins as a son of Massachusetts who crafted himself into an uncompromisingly ethical politician and social reformer.
Author : Gordon S. Wood
Publisher : Penguin
ISBN 13 : 0735224714
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (352 download)
Download or read book Friends Divided written by Gordon S. Wood and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2017 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of 2017 A Wall Street Journal Best Book of 2017 From the great historian of the American Revolution, New York Times-bestselling and Pulitzer-winning Gordon Wood, comes a majestic dual biography of two of America's most enduringly fascinating figures, whose partnership helped birth a nation, and whose subsequent falling out did much to fix its course. Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slaveowner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist view of government. They worked closely in the crucible of revolution, crafting the Declaration of Independence and leading, with Franklin, the diplomatic effort that brought France into the fight. But ultimately, their profound differences would lead to a fundamental crisis, in their friendship and in the nation writ large, as they became the figureheads of two entirely new forces, the first American political parties. It was a bitter breach, lasting through the presidential administrations of both men, and beyond. But late in life, something remarkable happened: these two men were nudged into reconciliation. What started as a grudging trickle of correspondence became a great flood, and a friendship was rekindled, over the course of hundreds of letters. In their final years they were the last surviving founding fathers and cherished their role in this mighty young republic as it approached the half century mark in 1826. At last, on the afternoon of July 4th, 50 years to the day after the signing of the Declaration, Adams let out a sigh and said, At least Jefferson still lives. He died soon thereafter. In fact, a few hours earlier on that same day, far to the south in his home in Monticello, Jefferson died as well. Arguably no relationship in this country's history carries as much freight as that of John Adams of Massachusetts and Thomas Jefferson of Virginia. Gordon Wood has more than done justice to these entwined lives and their meaning; he has written a magnificent new addition to America's collective story.
Author : John Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 46 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (83 download)
Download or read book Thoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1776 with total page 46 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Edward Sylvester Ellis
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3387003455
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (87 download)
Download or read book Thomas Jefferson, a Character Sketch written by Edward Sylvester Ellis and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-08-26 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reproduction of the original. The publishing house Megali specialises in reproducing historical works in large print to make reading easier for people with impaired vision.
Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
ISBN 13 : 0700611819
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (6 download)
Download or read book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty written by C. Bradley Thompson and published by University Press of Kansas. This book was released on 1998-11-16 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: America's finest eighteenth-century student of political science, John Adams is also the least studied of the Revolution's key figures. By the time he became our second president, no American had written more about our government and not even Jefferson or Madison had read as widely about questions of human nature, natural right, political organization, and constitutional construction. Yet this staunch constitutionalist is perceived by many as having become reactionary in his later years and his ideas have been largely disregarded. In the first major work on Adams's political thought in over thirty years, C. Bradley Thompson takes issue with the notion that Adams's thought is irrelevant to the development of American ideas. Focusing on Adams's major writings, Thompson elucidates and reevaluates his political and constitutional thought by interpreting it within the tradition of political philosophy stretching from Plato to Montesquieu. This major revisionist study shows that the distinction Adams drew between "principles of liberty" and "principles of political architecture" is central to his entire political philosophy. Thompson first chronicles Adams's conceptualization of moral and political liberty during his confrontation with American Loyalists and British imperial officers over the true nature of justice and the British Constitution, illuminating Adams's two most important pre-Revolutionary essays, "A Dissertation on the Canon and Feudal Law" and "The Letters of Novanglus." He then presents Adams's debate with French philosophers over the best form of government and provides an extended analysis of his Defence of the Constitutions of Government and Discourses on Davila to demonstrate his theory of political architecture. From these pages emerges a new John Adams. In reexamining his political thought, Thompson reconstructs the contours and influences of Adams's mental universe, the ideas he challenged, the problems he considered central to constitution-making, and the methods of his reasoning. Skillfully blending history and political science, Thompson's work shows how the spirit of liberty animated Adams's life and reestablishes this forgotten Revolutionary as an independent and important thinker.
