Author: Marc FriedlaenderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Marc FriedlaenderPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages :
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN: 9780674203990
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 514
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Diary of Charles Francis Adams: January 1820-June 1825
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 556
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A Traveled First Lady
Author: Louisa Catherine AdamsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
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.
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsDiary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 469
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Diary of Charles Francis Adams: November 1834-June 1836. Index [to v. 5-6
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Statesmen
Languages : en
Pages : 512
Book Description
Diary of Charles Francis Adams
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674204027
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
A man's twenty-seventh year is "critical," according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved to be. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and his father, John Quincy Adams, regarded as betrayal of the elder Adams by Daniel Webster and his Whigs. Once in, however, he showed himself politically adept. This diary, kept from January 1833 to June 1836 and hitherto unpublished, has elements of hidden personal drama. Through private meetings and caucuses and newspaper articles signed with pseudonyms, the younger Adams found effective means to carry on political activities in the face of dilemmas posed by his father's public prominence, his father-in-law's contrary persuasions, and his own preferences. He emerged with growing self-respect and solid accomplishment as political journalist--his initial vocation. The diary has fresh disclosures also about the personality of John Quincy Adams, shrewdly assessed by an observer uniquely placed to interpret domestic scenes as well as the greatly waged struggles in Washington against the Southern "slaveocracy" and "gag rules." Colorful figures in Boston's political and social life are finely etched in outspoken appraisals characteristic of the Adamses. The diarist shows acuteness too in comments on books, sermons, paintings, the theater, and opera.
Diary of Charles Francis Adams, Volume 8
Author: Charles Francis AdamsPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674204034
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 452
Book Description
The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adams's twenty-eighth to thirty-second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Buren administration he had helped to elect dissatisfied him, the Massachusetts Whig leadership had earned his distrust, positions on political issues that would either echo or oppose those being vigorously espoused by his father, John Quincy Adams, he felt inhibited from avowing publicly. So confronted, Charles found occupation in preparing and expressing himself on economic matters of moment--banking and currency--and moral questions generated by the slavery issue. With increasing effectiveness he employed the lecture platform and the press for the expression of views to which he felt free to attach his name. On all these matters he found his opinions at odds with the prevailing ones held among those prominent in the Boston scene, as John Adams and John Quincy Adams had found before him. Yet, despite a sense of loneliness, so induced, his participation in the varied social life of the city has its place in the Diary. However, activities in Boston and its environs that provided a focus for the record of the preceding years give way in these volumes to wider scenes made available by train and ship. An extensive journey with his wife by way of the Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Niagara and Canada, a visit of some length and interest in Washington, and stays of lesser length in New York City are recounted. Wide and persistent reading, the theater, numismatics, and the building of a summer home in Quincy also occupied him and are fully reflected in his journal. Family tragedies are not absent from its pages. As the period comes to its close his long and distinguished labors as editor of the family's papers had begun. A new self-assurance has become evident.