Author: John R. Howe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140087565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The quality of the American character, the structure of American society, and the meaning of America's historical experience all had important implications for John Adams’ political thought. Professor Howe explores the relationships that developed between the satisfactions of Adam’s life and Adams’ outlook on American society. He concludes that as Adams’ understanding of the American character and its values changed, so did his evaluation of American society and its political problems. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Changing Political Thought of John Adams
Author: John R. Howe
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140087565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The quality of the American character, the structure of American society, and the meaning of America's historical experience all had important implications for John Adams’ political thought. Professor Howe explores the relationships that developed between the satisfactions of Adam’s life and Adams’ outlook on American society. He concludes that as Adams’ understanding of the American character and its values changed, so did his evaluation of American society and its political problems. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 140087565X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 275
Book Description
The quality of the American character, the structure of American society, and the meaning of America's historical experience all had important implications for John Adams’ political thought. Professor Howe explores the relationships that developed between the satisfactions of Adam’s life and Adams’ outlook on American society. He concludes that as Adams’ understanding of the American character and its values changed, so did his evaluation of American society and its political problems. Originally published in 1966. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.
The Changing Political Thought of John Adams
Author: John Ruskin HOWE (Assistant Professor of History at the University of Minnesota.)
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Languages : en
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The Changing Political Thought of John Adams
Real Revolution of John Adams: His Changing Political Thought: 1765-1775
America and Europe in the Political Thought of John Adams
Author: Edward Handler
Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
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Publisher: Cambridge : Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book Description
No detailed description available for "America and Europe in the Political Thought of John Adams".
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Author: C. Bradley Thompson
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In reexamining John Adams's 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 methods of his reasoning.
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In reexamining John Adams's 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 methods of his reasoning.
John Adams's Republic
Author: Richard Alan Ryerson
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This trailblazing study explores Adams’s political thought across his entire career in law and public service. Winner of the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize of The Center for Political History Lebanon Velley College Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades, Ryerson offers readers of this magisterial book a fresh, firmly grounded account of Adams’s political thought and its development. Of all the founding fathers, Ryerson argues, John Adams may have worried the most about the problem of social jealousy and political conflict in the new republic. Ryerson explains how these concerns, coupled with Adams’s concept of executive authority and his fear of aristocracy, deeply influenced his political mindset. He weaves together a close analysis of Adams’s public writings, a comprehensive chronological narrative beginning in the 1760s, and an exploration of the second president’s private diary, manuscript autobiography, and personal and family letters, revealing Adams’s most intimate political thoughts across six decades. How, Adams asked, could a self-governing country counter the natural power and influence of wealthy elites and their friends in government? Ryerson argues that he came to believe a strong executive could hold at bay the aristocratic forces that posed the most serious dangers to a republican society. The first study ever published to closely examine all of Adams’s political writings, from his youth to his long retirement, John Adams’s Republic should appeal to everyone who seeks to know more about America’s first major political theorist.
Publisher: JHU Press
ISBN: 1421419238
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 571
Book Description
This trailblazing study explores Adams’s political thought across his entire career in law and public service. Winner of the Sally and Morris Lasky Prize of The Center for Political History Lebanon Velley College Scholars have examined John Adams’s writings and beliefs for generations, but no one has brought such impressive credentials to the task as Richard Alan Ryerson in John Adams’s Republic. The editor-in-chief of the Massachusetts Historical Society’s Adams Papers project for nearly two decades, Ryerson offers readers of this magisterial book a fresh, firmly grounded account of Adams’s political thought and its development. Of all the founding fathers, Ryerson argues, John Adams may have worried the most about the problem of social jealousy and political conflict in the new republic. Ryerson explains how these concerns, coupled with Adams’s concept of executive authority and his fear of aristocracy, deeply influenced his political mindset. He weaves together a close analysis of Adams’s public writings, a comprehensive chronological narrative beginning in the 1760s, and an exploration of the second president’s private diary, manuscript autobiography, and personal and family letters, revealing Adams’s most intimate political thoughts across six decades. How, Adams asked, could a self-governing country counter the natural power and influence of wealthy elites and their friends in government? Ryerson argues that he came to believe a strong executive could hold at bay the aristocratic forces that posed the most serious dangers to a republican society. The first study ever published to closely examine all of Adams’s political writings, from his youth to his long retirement, John Adams’s Republic should appeal to everyone who seeks to know more about America’s first major political theorist.
The Political Writings of John Adams
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895262929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Explores the writings of John Adams and his conservative political philosophy as it fits in the American tradition, providing the text of his major works, letters, and essays.
Publisher: Regnery Publishing
ISBN: 9780895262929
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 766
Book Description
Explores the writings of John Adams and his conservative political philosophy as it fits in the American tradition, providing the text of his major works, letters, and essays.
John Adams
Author: Anne Husted Burleigh
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412815452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The rare man who can sift the unchanging out of a constantly changing world is a 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 find 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. Adams viewed man as a being of liberty subject to God's law. Th is colored his answer to the fundamental problem of how to reconcile liberty and law. His solution was not original. It was an answer rooted in the thought of classical Greek, Roman and English political philosophers. Moreover, it was the answer of a lawyer who, by his very profession, viewed man as an historian whose accumulated experience in history tells us about human nature. Because the principles of politics and human nature that he delineated are still relevant, Adams correctly shares a place as one of America's outstanding political thinkers. Burleigh gives us a warm, sensitive study of John Adams in the many roles he played during his eventful life: student, lawyer, polemicist, Founding Father, diplomat, President, husband, father. His own brilliance and the events of the times in which he lived combined to off er him the knowledge and fame he sought. Her new introduction explains our continuing interest in this central figure of the early years of the American Republic.
Publisher: Transaction Publishers
ISBN: 1412815452
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 451
Book Description
The rare man who can sift the unchanging out of a constantly changing world is a 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 find 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. Adams viewed man as a being of liberty subject to God's law. Th is colored his answer to the fundamental problem of how to reconcile liberty and law. His solution was not original. It was an answer rooted in the thought of classical Greek, Roman and English political philosophers. Moreover, it was the answer of a lawyer who, by his very profession, viewed man as an historian whose accumulated experience in history tells us about human nature. Because the principles of politics and human nature that he delineated are still relevant, Adams correctly shares a place as one of America's outstanding political thinkers. Burleigh gives us a warm, sensitive study of John Adams in the many roles he played during his eventful life: student, lawyer, polemicist, Founding Father, diplomat, President, husband, father. His own brilliance and the events of the times in which he lived combined to off er him the knowledge and fame he sought. Her new introduction explains our continuing interest in this central figure of the early years of the American Republic.
The Political Science of John Adams
Author: Correa Moylan Walsh
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 400
Book Description