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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxix, 541 pages ; illustrations : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy. Until now, no one has properly dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth (father and son) presidents. John and John Quincy Adams were brilliant, prickly politicians and arguably the most independently minded among leaders of the founding generation. Distrustful of blind allegiance...
3) John Adams
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
751 p. : ill.; c25 cm.
Language
English
Author
Series
Publisher
Times Books
Pub. Date
2002
Edition
1st ed.
Language
English
Formats
Description
A portrait of the early nineteenth-century president documents his career with the House of Representatives, efforts to create a consolidated national government, role as a diplomat, contributions to foreign policy, and antislavery campaigns.
Author
Publisher
Penguin Press
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
English
Formats
Description
"Thomas Jefferson and John Adams could scarcely have come from more different worlds, or been more different in temperament. Jefferson, the optimist with enough faith in the innate goodness of his fellow man to be democracy's champion, was an aristocratic Southern slave owner, while Adams, the overachiever from New England's rising middling classes, painfully aware he was no aristocrat, was a skeptic about popular rule and a defender of a more elitist...
Author
Publisher
Recorded Books
Pub. Date
2003
Physical Desc
5 CDs (5.25 hr.)
Language
English
Description
Gore Vidal, one of the master stylists of American literature and an acute observer of American life and history, turns his literary and historiographic talent to a portrait of the formidable trio of George Washington, John Adams and Thomas Jefferson. In "Inventing a Nation", Vidal transports the reader into the minds, the living rooms (and bedrooms), the convention halls and the salons of Washington, Jefferson, Adams and others. We come to know these...
Author
Publisher
Harper, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
xxiv, 386 pages : map ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
Examines how the educations of America's first four presidents, and in particular their scholarly devotion to ancient Greek and Roman classics, informed the beliefs and ideals that shaped the nation's constitution and government.
Author
Publisher
Pantheon
Pub. Date
2017.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xix, 293 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"The book is a triptych, beginning with the mutiny on the Hermione and the ensuing manhunt for members of her crew. The second section recounts the arrival of a handful of mutineers in the United States, including Jonathan Robbins, before examining in depth the political crisis that engulfed John Adams and the Federalist Party. The final three chapters focus on the election of 1800 and the protracted consequences of Robbins's martyrdom during the...