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

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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.'

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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:

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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.”

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