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Author : Deborah Hopkinson
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780689869075
This reader chronicles the life of John Adams, the second president of the newly formed United States. Full color.
Author : Anonim
Publisher : National Geographic Books
Page : 44 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0792254910
A biography of John Adams with emphasis on his role in the American Revolution.
Author : Suzanne Tripp Jurmain
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 36 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2011-12-08
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780399538865
John Adams and Thomas Jefferson were good friends with very different personalities. But their differing views on how to run the newly created United States turned them into the worst of friends. They each became leaders of opposing political parties, and their rivalry followed them to the White House. Full of both history and humor, this is the story of two of America's most well-known presidents and how they learned to put their political differences aside for the sake of friendship.
Author : David A. Adler,Michael S. Adler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Picture books for children
ISBN : 0823420078
A simple, illustrated biography of one of America's most famous couples.
Author : Anne Burleigh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 515 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2017-07-05
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781351510660
man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society.
Author : Joseph Cowley
Publisher : iUniverse
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2009-07
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781440147043
John Adams could be, and was on occasion, cantankerous, stubborn, tactless, even rude. He was also prone to vanity and self-pity, and sensitive to what he perceived as slights, or attacks on his reputation or character. He also had a lust for fame, as did many involved in the founding of this nation. But if fame was the spur, it was also the driving force be-hind Adams' enormous energy, energy guided by a strong sense of honor and duty that was built into his character and stayed with him his whole life. Adams was a realist, with a profound sense of what people en masse are all about. He seems to have drawn that knowledge from his understanding of himself. He knew that each of us has the capacity for good or evil, and the gov-ernment of checks and balances he envisioned for the new nation they were building took this into account. Victory in the long struggle for freedom was certainly not assured. Many were Tories who wished to continue as British subjects. Many cared, but not enough to fight for the cause. We can be thankful for those who did, who initiated and carried on the War for In-dependence. Among them were the best and brightest the colonies had to offer. These were the people who tendered their lives, property, and sacred honor as collateral in the struggle for freedom. We can be grateful that John Adams was among them.
Author : Edmund Sears Morgan
Publisher : University of Virginia Press
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0813906946
In this updated edition, the author provides a new preface to address a few remaining concerns he has pondered in the quarter century since first publication.Tag: A classic work on the founding by the author of the bestselling Benjamin Frankli
Author : John H. Adams,Patricia Adams,George Black
Publisher : Chronicle Books
Page : 401 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2010-07-01
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780811878753
The pioneering environmental activist recounts his decades-long fight for our planet through the NDRC—with a foreword by Robert Redford. In 1970, John H. Adams was fed up with the levels of pollution in New York City. How could he raise children in a place where layers of soot covered the windows? Working as a lawyer for the U.S. Attorney’s office, he and fellow lawyers teamed up to form Natural Resources Defense Council, a grassroots environmental advocacy group. Over the years, NDRC has grown into an international powerhouse with 1.2 million members and a staff of scientists and lawyers whose mission is to safeguard the planet. This inspiring memoir tells the story of the NRDC and the environmental movement it sparked.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 1295 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-11
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781471104527
The Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of an American Founding Father. A huge bestseller in America, David McCullough's JOHN ADAMS tells the extraordinary story of the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot -- 'the colossus of independence', as Thomas Jefferson called him -- who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution and who rose to become the second President of the United States. Both a riveting portrait of an abundantly human man and a vivid evocation of his time, JOHN ADAMS has the sweep and vitality of a great novel, taking us from the Boston Massacre to Philadelphia in 1776 to the Versailles of Louis XVI, from Spain to Amsterdam to London, where Adams was the first American to stand before King George III as a representative of the new nation. This is history on a grand scale -- a book about politics and war, but also about human nature, love, faith, virtue, ambition, friendship and betrayal, and the far-reaching consequences of noble ideas. Above all, it is an enthralling, often surprising story of one of the most important and fascinating Americans who ever lived.
Author : David McCullough
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 18 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2008-01-29
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781416575887
Chronicles the life of America's second president, including his youth, his career as a Massachusetts farmer and lawyer, his marriage to Abigail, his rivalry with Thomas Jefferson, and his influence on the birth of the United States.
Author : Samuel Willard Crompton
Publisher : Infobase Publishing
Page : 135 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Presidents
ISBN : 9781438104041
Presents a biography of John Adams, attorney, soldier, ambassador to Britain as well as the first vice-president and the second president of the United States.
Author : John Adams,Charles Francis Adams
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 472 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Presidents
ISBN : HARVARD:RSLFEL
Author : Maggie Combs
Publisher : ABDO
Page : 114 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2013-01-01
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9781617836466
Presents critiques of the former president's works and guides readers through the process of analyzing them from different critical angles.
Author : C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher : University Press of Kansas
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1998-11-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780700611812
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.
Author : Paul Theroux
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Travel
ISBN : 0618126937
Whether it is trekking through the icy Maine woods, or journeying to a remote island in the South Pacific where the first atomic bombs were detonated, Theroux serves as both camera and the eye. This collection of essays and articles is the ultimate good read for anyone fascinated by travel.