Author: Edward EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
A Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams
Author: Edward EverettPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 584
Book Description
An Eulogy on the Life and Character of J. Quincy Adams
Author: Edward EVERETTEULOGY ON THE LIFE & CHARACTER
Author: Edward 1794-1865 EverettPublisher:
ISBN: 9781362407393
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 70
Book Description
John Quincy Adams: the complete biography written in his lifetime.
Author: Michelle GrayePublisher: Lulu.com
ISBN: 1312199342
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 419
Book Description
This extraordinary biography on one of our most misunderstood presidents -- John Quincy Adams (1825-1829). The brilliant but mercurial John Quincy never could quite fill the shoes of his more brilliant father John Adams but he remains one of the most intelligent and well versed on all subjects presidents we've ever had in our nation's history.
John Quincy Adams
Author: James TraubPublisher:
ISBN: 0465028276
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 641
Book Description
Drawing on Adams' diary, letters, and writings, chronicles the diplomat and president's numerous achievements and failures, revealing his unwavering moral convictions, brilliance, unyielding spirit, and political courage.
An Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams
Author: Edward EverettPublisher: Forgotten Books
ISBN: 9780243421176
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 574
Book Description
Excerpt from An Eulogy on the Life and Character of John Quincy Adams: Delivered at the Request of the Legislature of Massachusetts, in Faneuil Hall, April 15, 1848 And the place - who would have wished such a man to die else where? He fell in the nation's capitol, at his post of duty, in the very act, probably, of rising to make some motion. As the great Chatham fell, so he fell - surrounded by his peers, if peers he had say rather, surrounded by the nation's representatives. He fell then in the place where such a man should fall - where, it is said, he had expressed a wish to fall. The veteran warrior died on his battle field. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Life and Public Services of John Quincy Adams, Sixth President of the United States
Author: William Henry SewardPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 430
Book Description
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
Author: William Earl WeeksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by which Adams wrested the treaty from a recalcitrant Spain. The task required all of Adams's skill in diplomacy, for he faced a tangled skein of domestic and international controversies when he became secretary of state in 1817. The final document provided the United States commercial access to the Orient—a major objective of the Monroe administration that paved the way for the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Adams, the son of a president and later himself president, saw himself as destined to play a crucial role in the growth and development of the United States. In this he succeeded. Yet his legendary statecraft proved bittersweet. Adams came to repudiate the slave society whose interests he had served by acquiring Florida, he was disgusted by the rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.
The Cambridge History of American Literature: Early national literature: pt. II. Later national literature: pt. I
Author: William Peterfield TrentPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 682
Book Description
John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery
Author: David WaldstreicherPublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0199947961
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 337
Book Description
In the final years of his political career, President John Quincy Adams was well known for his objections to slavery, with rival Henry Wise going so far as to label him "the acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of southern slavery that ever existed." As a young statesman, however, he supported slavery. How did the man who in 1795 told a British cabinet officer not to speak to him of "the Virginians, the Southern people, the democrats," whom he considered "in no other light than as Americans," come to foretell "a grand struggle between slavery and freedom"? How could a committed expansionist, who would rather abandon his party and lose his U.S. Senate seat than attack Jeffersonian slave power, later come to declare the Mexican War the "apoplexy of the Constitution," a hijacking of the republic by slaveholders? What changed? Entries from Adams's personal diary, more extensive than that of any American statesman, reveal a highly dynamic and accomplished politician in engagement with one of his generation's most challenging national dilemmas. Expertly edited by David Waldstreicher and Matthew Mason, John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery offers an unusual perspective on the dramatic and shifting politics of slavery in the early republic, as it moved from the margins to the center of public life and from the shadows to the substance of Adams's politics. The editors provide a lucid introduction to the collection as a whole and frame the individual documents with brief and engaging insights, rendering both Adams's life and the controversies over slavery into a mutually illuminating narrative. By juxtaposing Adams's personal reflections on slavery with what he said-and did not say-publicly on the issue, the editors offer a nuanced portrait of how he interacted with prevailing ideologies during his consequential career and life. John Quincy Adams and the Politics of Slavery is an invaluable contribution to our understanding of the complicated politics of slavery that set the groundwork for the Civil War.