Author: John AdamsPublisher:
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Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 262
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Discourses on Davila
Author: John AdamsDiscourses on Davila. A Series of Papers, on Political History. Written in the Year 1790, and Then Published in the Gazette of the United States. By an American Citizen [i.e. John Adams, President of the United States of America].
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Author: Enrico Caterino DAVILAPublisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Discourses On Davila
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Da Capo Press
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
August 2000.
Discourses on Davila
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Franklin Classics
ISBN: 9780342250387
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
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Discourses on Davila
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293748442
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 256
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
Discourses on Davila
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781293762868
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy
Author: Luke MayvillePublisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN: 0691183244
Category : Philosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
Why American founding father John Adams feared the political power of the rich—and how his ideas illuminate today's debates about inequality and its consequences Long before the "one percent" became a protest slogan, American founding father John Adams feared the power of a class he called simply "the few"—the wellborn, the beautiful, and especially the rich. In John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy, Luke Mayville explores Adams’s deep concern with the way in which inequality threatens to corrode democracy and empower a small elite. Adams believed that wealth is politically powerful not merely because money buys influence, but also because citizens admire and even identify with the rich. Mayville explores Adams’s theory of wealth and power in the context of his broader concern about social and economic disparities—reflections that promise to illuminate contemporary debates about inequality and its political consequences. He also examines Adams’s ideas about how oligarchy might be countered. A compelling work of intellectual history, John Adams and the Fear of American Oligarchy has important lessons for today’s world.
Papers of John Adams
Author: John AdamsPublisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 566
Book Description
Military affairs provide some of the most fascinating subjects, including accounts of the Battle of Bunker Hill, assessments of high-ranking officers, and complaints about the behavior of riflemen sent from three states to aid the Massachusetts troops.
John Adams: Party of One
Author: James GrantPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 0374530238
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 560
Book Description
A biography of the revolutionary, founding father, and second president of the United States explores his origins as a son of Massachusetts who crafted himself into an uncompromisingly ethical politician and social reformer.
John Adams and the Spirit of Liberty
Author: C. Bradley ThompsonPublisher: University Press of Kansas
ISBN: 0700611819
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 360
Book Description
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.