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Total Pages : 36 pages
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Download or read book Sketch of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Services of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1827 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Adams
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Total Pages : 60 pages
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Download or read book The Adams Memorial; Containing a Sketch of John Adams, the Elder, Together with the Life, Character ... Death and Funeral Obsequies of ... John Quincy Adams, Etc written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 16 pages
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Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Services of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America written by and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress
Publisher : Wentworth Press
ISBN 13 : 9780526574360
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (743 download)
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Services of John Quincy Adams, President of the United States of America written by Pamphlet Collection (Library of Congress and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-10 with total page 32 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.
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Total Pages : 32 pages
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Download or read book How to Draw the Life and Times of John Quincy Adams written by and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Paul C. Nagel
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307828190
Total Pages : 432 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Paul C. Nagel and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-12-05 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker’s chamber. The public mourning that followed, writes Paul C. Nagel, “exceeded anything previously seen in America. Forgotten was his failed presidency and his often cold demeanor. It was the memory of an extraordinary human being—one who in his last years had fought heroically for the right of petition and against a war to expand slavery—that drew a grateful people to salute his coffin in the Capitol and to stand by the railroad tracks as his bier was transported from Washington to Boston.” Nagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned many offices: minister to Holland, Russia, and England, U.S. senator, secretary of state, president of the United States (1825-1829), and, finally, U.S. representative (the only ex-president to serve in the House). On the basis of a thorough study of Adams’ seventy-year diary, among a host of other documents, the author gives us a richer account than we have yet had of JQA’s life—his passionate marriage to Louisa Johnson, his personal tragedies (two sons lost to alcoholism), his brilliant diplomacy, his recurring depression, his exasperating behavior—and shows us why, in the end, only Abraham Lincoln’s death evoked a great out-pouring of national sorrow in nineteenth-century America. We come to see how much Adams disliked politics and hoped for more from life than high office; how he sought distinction in literacy and scientific endeavors, and drew his greatest pleasure from being a poet, critic, translator, essayist, botanist, and professor of oratory at Harvard; how tension between the public and private Adams vexed his life; and how his frustration kept his masked and aloof (and unpopular). Nagel’s great achievement, in this first biography of America’s sixth president in a quarter century, is finally to portray Adams in all his talent and complexity.
Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 16 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)
Download or read book A Sketch of the Life and Services of J. Q. Adams, Etc written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1828 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : James Traub
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ISBN 13 : 0465028276
Total Pages : 641 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by James Traub and published by . This book was released on 2016-03-22 with total page 641 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on Adams' diary, letters, and writings, chronicles the diplomat and president's numerous achievements and failures, revealing his unwavering moral convictions, brilliance, unyielding spirit, and political courage.
Author : Fred Kaplan
Publisher : Harper Collins
ISBN 13 : 0062199323
Total Pages : 571 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (621 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Fred Kaplan and published by Harper Collins. This book was released on 2014-05-06 with total page 571 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer. . . . If he could read this biography, Adams would be satisfied that he had been fairly dealt with at last.” —Carol Berkin, Washington Post In this fresh and illuminating biography, Fred Kaplan, the acclaimed author of Lincoln, brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams—the little-known and much-misunderstood sixth president of the United States and the first son of John and Abigail Adams—and reveals how Adams' inspiring, progressive vision guided his life and helped shape the course of America. Kaplan draws on a trove of unpublished archival material to trace Adams' evolution from his childhood during the Revolutionary War to his brilliant years as Secretary of State to his time in the White House and beyond. He examines Adams' myriad sides: the public and private man, the statesman and writer, the wise thinker and passionate advocate, the leading abolitionist and fervent federalist. In these ways, Adams was a predecessor of Lincoln and, later, FDR and Obama. This sweeping biography makes clear how Adams' forward-thinking values, his definition of leadership, and his vision for the nation's future is as much about twenty-first-century America as it is about Adams' own time. Meticulously researched and masterfully written, John Quincy Adams paints a rich portrait of this brilliant leader and his vision for a young nation.
Author : Andrew Oliver
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780674691520
Total Pages : 392 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (915 download)
Download or read book Portraits of John Quincy Adams and His Wife written by Andrew Oliver and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1970 with total page 392 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.
Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 612 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)
Download or read book The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 612 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a discovery in biography. Originally published ... in a twelve-volume set [1874-1877], the diary of John Quincy Adams passed out of print in 1880, neglected by an America little interested in its own heroes. Allan Nevins has brought it to light again. Shortened by the omission of non-essential material, the book speaks Adams' mind and soul on the panorama of America from Washington to Stephen A. Douglas. "No other American diarist," says the editor, "touched American life at quite so many points, over so long a period, as John Quincy Adams." The only son of a President to succeed his father in the office [until George W. Bush]; minister to Russia, Prussia, Holland, Sweden, France, and Great Britain; Secretary of State for eight years; twice a United States Senator and for twenty years a member of the House of Representatives; author, poet, professor at Harvard; honored, flattered, successful; on his forty-fifth birthday John Quincy Adams confided to his diary: "Two-thirds of a long life are passed and I have done nothing to distinguish it by usefulness to my country or to mankind, : Later he prayed fervently that he might be preserved from "indolence and despondency and indiscretion." Aloof, hyper-sensitive, uncompromising, belligerent, quick tempered, Puritanical, Adams was never hypocritical, never a poseur--and, although inclined to weep at his prayers, not a prig. Revisiting Paris after an absence of several years, he remarks drily: "The tendency to dissipation at Paris seems irresistible ... I am as ill-guarded as I was at the age of twenty." Judging others severely, he is not lenient with himself: "By some negligence of mine, which I should think inexcusable in another ... sometimes the most important details of an argument escape my mind at the moment when I want them, though I am ever ready to present them before and after ... There are many differences of sentiment, of tastes and of opinions between us (Adams and his wife). There are natural frailties of temper in both of us; both being quick and irascible, and mine being sometimes harsh." Often there is a delicious pungency in his remarks: "Princes Galitzin, venerable by the length and thickness of her beard" ... "Mr. Clay lost his temper, as he generally does" ... "Mr. Jefferson tells large stories. He knows better than all this, but he loves to excite wonder." ... "The races at length are finished, and the Senate really met today." ... "It is, I believe, the law o nature that the servant shall spoil or plunder the master." ... Describing the Indian chiefs smoking the pipe of peace with General Washington, he remarks that the Indians "appeared to be quite unused to it," and thought they were complying with the white men's customs. John Quincy Adams has left a fascinating record of fifty years of American history as it appeared to those who made it
Author : Robert Abraham East
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ISBN 13 : 9781258320737
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (27 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Robert Abraham East and published by . This book was released on 2012-05-01 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Total Pages : 86 pages
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Download or read book Sketch of the Life of John Quincy Adams; Taken from the Port Folio of April, 1819 written by and published by . This book was released on 1824 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Josiah Quincy
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 337510586X
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (751 download)
Download or read book Memoir of the Life of John Quincy Adams written by Josiah Quincy and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-08-04 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1860.
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 : Howard Jones
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190281324
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)
Download or read book Mutiny on the Amistad written by Howard Jones and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-20 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume presents the first full-scale treatment of the only instance in history where African blacks, seized by slave dealers, won their freedom and returned home. Jones describes how, in 1839, Joseph Cinqué led a revolt on the Spanish slave ship, the Amistad, in the Caribbean. The seizure of the ship by an American naval vessel near Montauk, Long Island, the arrest of the Africans in Connecticut, and the Spanish protest against the violation of their property rights created an international controversy. The Amistad affair united Lewis Tappan and other abolitionists who put the "law of nature" on trial in the United States by their refusal to accept a legal system that claimed to dispense justice while permitting artificial distinctions based on race or color. The mutiny resulted in a trial before the U.S. Supreme Court that pitted former President John Quincy Adams against the federal government. Jones vividly recaptures this compelling drama--the most famous slavery case before Dred Scott--that climaxed in the court's ruling to free the captives and allow them to return to Africa.
