[PDF] Papers Of John Adams eBook

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 566 pages
File Size : 46,92 MB
Release : 1977
Category : Biography & Autobiography
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Military affairs provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of riflemen sent from three states to aid the Massachusetts troops.

Author : John Adams
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 888 pages
File Size : 26,91 MB
Release : 2003-10-25
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ISBN : 9780674654419

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No family in three generations has contributed so much to American history as the Adamses. John Adams, John Quincy Adams, and Charles Francis Adams, despite periods of doubt, knew that history, if not their contemporaries, would recognize their accomplishments. When the Adams Papers series is complete, the writings of these three statesmen will have been examined thoroughly. Aside from the Legal Papers of John Adams, published in 1965, these two volumes are the first in Series III: General Correspondence and Other Papers of the Adams Statesmen. Volumes 1 and 2 of the Papers of John Adams include letters to and from friends and colleagues, reports of committees on which he served, his polemical writings, published and unpublished, and state papers to which he made a contribution. All of Adams's newspaper writings, including "A Dissertation on the Canon and the Feudal Law," are in these two volumes. In addition to being a condemnation of the Stamp Act, the "Dissertation" is shown to be one of the building blocks of the theory of a commonwealth of independent states under the king, which reaches complete statement in the Novanglus letters. For the first time, all thirteen of these letters appear in full with annotation. The period September 1755 to April 1775 covers Adams's public service in Braintree and Boston town meetings, the Massachusetts House of Representatives, the First Continental Congress, and the First Provincial Congress of Massachusetts. During this time his political future was being shaped by circumstances not always of his choosing. He hesitated at first at the threshold of a public career, political ambition in conflict with concern for his family's well-being. But as the confrontation with Great Britain sharpened, the crisis became acute; no choice remained. For Adams there was no shirking the path of duty.

Author : Abigail Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 31,67 MB
Release : 2010-11-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0674057058

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Spanning nearly forty years, the letters collected in this volume form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.

Author : JOHN. ADAMS
Publisher : Belknap Press
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 11,97 MB
Release : 2024-10
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674296473

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This volume chronicles the first year of Adams's presidency, as he sought to protect America's commercial interests while preparing the country for potential war with France; faced the resurgence of yellow fever and questions about his abilities to lead the nation; and addressed competing powers on the western front.

Author : Lyman Henry Butterfield
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 596 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 1963
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780674022782

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A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.

Author : Louisa Catherine Adams
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 439 pages
File Size : 12,66 MB
Release : 2014-03-04
Category : History
ISBN : 0674369270

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Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.