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Book The Adams Mansion

    Book Details:
  • Author : Henry Adams
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1935
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 68 pages

Download or read book The Adams Mansion written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1935 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty

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.

Book Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams  Sixth President of the United States

Download or read book Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams Sixth President of the United States written by William Henry Seward and published by Auburn [N.Y.] : Derby, Miller. This book was released on 1849 with total page 430 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a biography of John Quincy Adams, United States Senator, Congressman from Massachusetts, and the sixth President of the United States from 1825 to 1829.

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

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:

Book John Quincy Adams

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  • Author : John Torrey Morse (jr.)
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1883
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse (jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1883 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Quincy  Massachusetts Historical Guide and Map

Download or read book Quincy Massachusetts Historical Guide and Map written by Mass. Quincy Tercentenary Committee Quincy and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Quincy Adams

Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by Paul C. Nagel and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President. This polymath and troubled man, caught up in both a democratic age not to his understanding and the furies of passion, was an American lion in winter.

Book John Quincy Adams

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  • Author : Fred Kaplan
  • Publisher : Harper Collins
  • Release : 2014-05-06
  • ISBN : 0062199323
  • Pages : 571 pages

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.

Book John Quincy Adams

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  • Author : John Torrey Morse
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1885
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 352 pages

Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Writings of John Quincy Adams  1779 1796

Download or read book Writings of John Quincy Adams 1779 1796 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1913 with total page 554 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.

Book A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams

Download or read book A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams written by Edward Everett and published by . This book was released on 1848 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book John Quincy Adams

    Book Details:
  • Author : John Torrey Morse
  • Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
  • Release : 2024-01-10
  • ISBN : 3385314097
  • Pages : 342 pages

Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2024-01-10 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.