Download or read book A View of the Adams Mansion Quincy Massachusetts the Home of John Adams and John Quincy Adams written by Merrymount Press and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A View of the Adams Mansion Quincy Massachusetts the Home of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams written by Merrymount Press and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 1 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
Download or read book A View of the Adams Mansion Quincy Massachusetss the Home of Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adams written by Rudolph Ruzicka and published by . This book was released on 1929 with total page 4 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Birthplaces of Presidents John and John Quincy Adams in Quincy Massachusetts written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1936 with total page 40 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams During the Revolution written by John Adams and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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:
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.
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.
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Download or read book History of the United States of America During the First Administration of Thomas Jefferson written by Henry Adams and published by . This book was released on 1889 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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:
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Download or read book John Quincy Adams written by John Torrey Morse (Jr.) and published by . This book was released on 1887 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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.
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.
