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Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 612 pages
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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 : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845 ... Edited by Allen Nevins written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 585 pages
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Download or read book The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845. (A Selection from "The Memoirs of John Quincy Adams") ... Edited by Allan Nevins written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Frederick Ungar
ISBN 13 : 9780804410106
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Download or read book Diary of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by Frederick Ungar. This book was released on 1969-03-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Nevins
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Total Pages : 14 pages
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Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 640 pages
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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 1969 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A selection from 'The memoirs of John Quincy Adams, comprising portions of his diary from 1795 to 1848.'
Author : John Quincy Adams
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Download or read book The diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1845: American diplomacy, and political, social, and intellectual life from Washington to Polk ed written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Author : John Quincy Adams
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Total Pages : 586 pages
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Download or read book The Diary of John Quincy Adams, 1794-1848 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Nevins
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Author : John Quincy Adams
Publisher : Library of America
ISBN 13 : 1598535242
Total Pages : 989 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (985 download)
Download or read book John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294) written by John Quincy Adams and published by Library of America. This book was released on 2017-06-20 with total page 989 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self-portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Now, for the 250th anniversary of Adams's birth, Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions. Volume 2 opens with Adams serving as Secretary of State, amid political maneuverings within and outside James Monroe's cabinet to become his successor, a process that culminates in Adams's election to the presidency by the House of Representatives after the deadlocked four-way contest of 1824. Even as Adams takes the oath of office, rivals Henry Clay, his Secretary of State, John C. Calhoun, his vice president, and an embittered Andrew Jackson, eye the election of 1828. The diary records in candid detail his frustration as his far-sighted agenda for national improvement founders on the rocks of internecine political factionalism, conflict that results in his becoming only the second president, with his father, to fail to secure reelection. After a short-lived retirement, Adams returns to public service as a Congressman from Massachusetts, and for the last seventeen years of his life he leads efforts to resist the extension of slavery and to end the notorious "gag rule" that stifles debate on the issue in Congress. In 1841 he further burnishes his reputation as a scourge of the Slave Power by successfully defending African mutineers of the slave ship Amistad before the Supreme Court. The diary achieves perhaps its greatest force in its prescient anticipation of the Civil War and Emancipation, an “object,” as Adams described it during the Missouri Crisis, “vast in its compass, awful in its prospects, sublime and beautiful in its issue.”
Author : Allan Nevins
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Author : Phyllis Lee Levin
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1137474629
Total Pages : 503 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (374 download)
Download or read book The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams written by Phyllis Lee Levin and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2015-01-06 with total page 503 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers, Franklin and Jefferson. All this made coming back to America a great challenge. But though he was determined to make his own career he was soon embarked, at Washington's appointment, on his phenomenal work abroad, as well as on a deeply troubled though loving and enduring marriage. But through all the emotional turmoil, he dedicated his life to serving his country. At 50, he returned to America to serve as Secretary of State to President Monroe. He was inaugurated President in 1824, after which he served as a stirring defender of the slaves of the Amistad rebellion and as a member of the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in 1848. In The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, Phyllis Lee Levin provides the deeply researched and beautifully written definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and towering early Americans.
Author : Paul C. Nagel
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307828190
Total Pages : 636 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 636 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 : 554 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)
Download or read book Memoirs of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1877 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
