A Companion To John Adams And John Quincy Adams
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Author | : David Waldstreicher |
Publisher | : John Wiley & Sons |
Total Pages | : 600 |
Release | : 2013-02-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1118524292 |
A Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine. Features contributions from top historians and Adams’ scholars Considers sub-topics of interest such as John Adams’ role in the late 18th-century demise of the Federalists, both Adams’ presidencies and efforts as diplomats, religion, and slavery Includes two chapters on Abigail Adams and one on Louisa Adams
Author | : Harlow G. Unger |
Publisher | : Da Capo Press, Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2012-09-04 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 030682129X |
From a leading Founding Fathers historian, a masterful biography of a towering figure in the American nation's formative years.
Author | : David McCullough |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 18 |
Release | : 2001 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 141657588X |
Profiles John Adams, an influential patriot during the American Revolution who became the nation's first vice president and second president.
Author | : John Quincy Adams |
Publisher | : Books for Libraries |
Total Pages | : 580 |
Release | : 1874 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Author | : John Quincy Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 620 |
Release | : 1916 |
Genre | : Presidents |
ISBN | : |
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
Author | : Paul C. Nagel |
Publisher | : Knopf |
Total Pages | : 636 |
Release | : 2012-12-05 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0307828190 |
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 |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 554 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
Author | : John Quincy Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 584 |
Release | : 1914 |
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Author | : Richard B. Bernstein |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0199740232 |
This book, a free-standing companion to Bernstein's 2003 biography Thomas Jefferson, responds to the public curiosity about Adams, his life, and his work for those intrigued by popular-culture portrayals of Adams in the Broadway musical 1776 and the HBO television miniseries John Adams. As with Bernstein's other work (e.g., The Founding Fathers: A Very Short Introduction), it is a clear, scholarly, concise, well-written, and well-researched account of Adams's life, career, and thought addressing anyone seeking to learn more about him.
Author | : John Quincy Adams |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 588 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : |
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.