Download or read book Diary of John Quincy Adams March 1786 December 1788 written by John Quincy Adams and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1981 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Diary of John Quincy Adams March 1786 December 1788 Index written by John Quincy Adams and published by Belknap Press. This book was released on 1982-03-01 with total page 540 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volumes 1 and 2 of the Diary of John Quincy Adams begin the publication of the greatest diary, both in mass and substance, in American History. Recording a span of sixty-eight years, it has been known heretofore only in partial form. When, over a hundred years ago, Charles Francis Adams edited his grandfather's diary, he chose to omit "the details of common life," reduce "the moral and religious speculations," and retain criticisms of others only if they applied to public figures "acting in the same sphere with the writer." Now the diary is being published complete for the first time. Starting with the entries of a twelve-year-old, the present volumes cover John Quincy Adams's formative year-his schooling and travel abroad, study at Harvard, and the first months of training for the law. Adams's six years overseas with his father took him to a half dozen countries, with lengthy stays in Paris, the Netherlands, and St. Petersburg. On his return he stayed for a time in New York, making the acquaintance of influential congressmen. To finish preparing for college, he lived with an aunt and uncle in Haverhill, caught up in a round of social activities. Entering Harvard with junior standing in the spring of 1786, he graduated in fifteen months. As Adams matured, diary entries became less a dutiful response to a father's request and more a record of the young man's perceptive observations and reflections-and thus a rich source for social history. There are accounts of play-going in Paris, evenings with Lafayette and Jefferson, the diversions of rural New England, apprenticeship in a Newburyport law office. And through the eyes of a serious but not unbending student we are given a picture of Harvard in the 1780s. Candid opinions of preachers, writers, men of affairs, and family members accompany the closest self-scrutiny. Here is a remarkable record of the passage from adolescence to manhood of a precocious and sensitive boy torn by self-doubt and driving himself to fulfill his promise and his parents' expectations.
Download or read book Diary of John Quincy Adams November 1779 March 1786 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Download or read book Life in a New England Town 1787 1788 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1903 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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
Download or read book Memoirs of John Quincy Adams Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848 written by John Quincy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1874 with total page 578 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Life in a New England Town written by Charles Francis Adams Hn Quincy Adams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-02-21 with total page 208 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.
Download or read book Life in a New England Town 1787 1788 Diary of John Quincy Adams written by John Quincy Adams and published by Wentworth Press. This book was released on 2019-03-15 with total page 206 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.
Download or read book Life in a New England Town 1787 1788 written by John Quincy Adams and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Life in a New England Town; 1787, 1788: Diary of John Quincy Adams, While a Student in the Office of Theophilus Parsons at Newburyport William Stedman, born in Cambridge, Opened his law Office in Lancaster; died in 1831. When J. Q. Adams was a member of the national Senate, William Stedman was in the House of Representatives (1803 and lodged with J. Q. Adams's colleague, Timothy Pickering. It is probable that their relations were not then altogether cordial, as, a few weeks after his arrival, J. Q. Adams heard from his cousin, William Shaw, that William Stedman was the writer of a letter to the Centinel criticising very severely his attitude to the Louisiana question, etc., and ending with this summary of J. Q. Adams's course thus far. 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.
Download or read book Life in a New England Town written by Charles Francis Adams Hn Quincy Adams and published by Scholar's Choice. This book was released on 2015-02-17 with total page 210 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.
Download or read book Life in a New England Town 1787 1788 written by John Quincy Adams, Former and published by Franklin Classics Trade Press. This book was released on 2018-11-13 with total page 216 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 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. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. To ensure a quality reading experience, this work has been proofread and republished using a format that seamlessly blends the original graphical elements with text in an easy-to-read typeface. 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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Download or read book Freedom written by Jack D. Warren and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2023-10-03 with total page 487 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published under the auspices of the American Revolution Institute of the Society of the Cincinnati, Freedom: The Enduring Importance of the American Revolution is a narrative history of the War for Independence. It tells the pivotal story of the courageous men and women who risked their lives to create a new nation based on the idea that government should serve people and protect their freedom. Written for Americans intent on understanding our national origins, but also appropriate for teachers and secondary classrooms, Freedom argues that the American Revolution is the central event in our history: the turning point between our colonial origins and our national experience. This volume includes 167 full-color paintings, maps, illustrations, and photos—many of them seen only in historical institutions across the country! The Freedom narrative spans from the American Revolution’s origins in the nature of colonial British America—a society in which freedom was limited and in which everyone was the subject of a distant monarch—through the crisis in the British Empire that followed the French and Indian War, to the events of the War for Independence itself, and ultimately to the creation of the first great republic in modern history. This is the story of how Americans came to fight for their freedom and became a united people, with a shared history and national identity, and how a generation of founders expressed ideals of liberty, equality, natural and civil rights, and responsible citizenship: ideals that have shaped our history and will shape our future—and the future of the world.
Download or read book The Documentary History of the Supreme Court of the United States 1789 1800 written by Maeva Marcus and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 856 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 4 assembles a selection of documents illustrating the statuory development of the federal judiciary from 1789-1800. Beginning with a narrative essay on the background of Article III of the Constitution, the volume tracks, from the First through the Sixth Congresses, all the major and minor legislation relevant to the establishment of the American judicial system. As the decade unfolded, experience revealed problems with the system as it was initially structured, and efforts were made to change it. Dissatisfaction with circuit riding, with the method of juror selection, and with judges undertaking duties not strictly judicial, for example, led to various legislative attempts at reform.
Download or read book Inventing the Job of President written by Fred I. Greenstein and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-08-10 with total page 177 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How the early presidents shaped America's highest office From George Washington's decision to buy time for the new nation by signing the less-than-ideal Jay Treaty with Great Britain in 1795 to George W. Bush's order of a military intervention in Iraq in 2003, the matter of who is president of the United States is of the utmost importance. In this book, Fred Greenstein examines the leadership styles of the earliest presidents, men who served at a time when it was by no means certain that the American experiment in free government would succeed. In his groundbreaking book The Presidential Difference, Greenstein evaluated the personal strengths and weaknesses of the modern presidents since Franklin D. Roosevelt. Here, he takes us back to the very founding of the republic to apply the same yardsticks to the first seven presidents from Washington to Andrew Jackson, giving his no-nonsense assessment of the qualities that did and did not serve them well in office. For each president, Greenstein provides a concise history of his life and presidency, and evaluates him in the areas of public communication, organizational capacity, political skill, policy vision, cognitive style, and emotional intelligence. Washington, for example, used his organizational prowess—honed as a military commander and plantation owner—to lead an orderly administration. In contrast, John Adams was erudite but emotionally volatile, and his presidency was an organizational disaster. Inventing the Job of President explains how these early presidents and their successors shaped the American presidency we know today and helped the new republic prosper despite profound challenges at home and abroad.
