Author: William Vans MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Letters of William Vans Murrary to John Quincy Adams, 1797-1803
Author: William Vans MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Europe
Languages : en
Pages : 398
Book Description
Letters of William Vans Murray to John Quincy Adams, 1797-1803
Author: William Vans MurrayPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : France
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Letters of W.V. Murray to John Quincy Adams, 1797-1803. Edited by W.C. Ford
Author: William Vans MURRAYThe Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
Author: Phyllis Lee LevinPublisher: Macmillan
ISBN: 1137279621
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 542
Book Description
A compelling look at our sixth president, the first biography to look closely at JQ's international life and at his complicated and troubled marriage
John Quincy Adams Autograph Letter to William Vans Murray, 1801 May 2
Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 2
Book Description
Manuscript letter from John Quincy Adams to his friend William Vans Murray. Adams openly discusses his feelings on his imminent removal from his diplomatic post and his return to America, his opinion of Thomas Jefferson's inaugural speech, and his hopes for the new presidential administration. Signed simply "A".
Readers' Guide to Periodical Literature
Author: A Magnificent Catastrophe
Author: Edward J. LarsonPublisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1416568409
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 355
Book Description
CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title "They could write like angels and scheme like demons." So begins Pulitzer Prize-winner Edward Larson's masterful account of the wild ride that was the 1800 presidential election—an election so convulsive and so momentous to the future of American democracy that Thomas Jefferson would later dub it "America's second revolution." This was America's first true presidential campaign, giving birth to our two-party system and indelibly etching the lines of partisanship that have so profoundly shaped American politics ever since. The contest featured two of our most beloved Founding Fathers, once warm friends, facing off as the heads of their two still-forming parties—the hot-tempered but sharp-minded John Adams, and the eloquent yet enigmatic Thomas Jefferson—flanked by the brilliant tacticians Alexander Hamilton and Aaron Burr, who later settled their own differences in a duel. The country was descending into turmoil, reeling from the terrors of the French Revolution, and on the brink of war with France. Blistering accusations flew as our young nation was torn apart along party lines: Adams and his elitist Federalists would squelch liberty and impose a British-style monarchy; Jefferson and his radically democratizing Republicans would throw the country into chaos and debase the role of religion in American life. The stakes could not have been higher. As the competition heated up, other founders joined the fray—James Madison, John Jay, James Monroe, Gouverneur Morris, George Clinton, John Marshall, Horatio Gates, and even George Washington—some of them emerging from retirement to respond to the political crisis gripping the nation and threatening its future. Drawing on unprecedented, meticulous research of the day-to-day unfolding drama, from diaries and letters of the principal players as well as accounts in the fast-evolving partisan press, Larson vividly re-creates the mounting tension as one state after another voted and the press had the lead passing back and forth. The outcome remained shrouded in doubt long after the voting ended, and as Inauguration Day approached, Congress met in closed session to resolve the crisis. In its first great electoral challenge, our fragile experiment in constitutional democracy hung in the balance. A Magnificent Catastrophe is history writing at its evocative best: the riveting story of the last great contest of the founding period.
Annual Report of the American Historical Association
Author: American Historical AssociationPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Historiography
Languages : en
Pages : 748
Book Description
John Marshall
Author: Jean Edward SmithPublisher: Henry Holt and Company
ISBN: 1466862319
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
A New York Times Notable Book of 1996 It was in tolling the death of Supreme Court Chief Justice John Marshall in 1835 that the Liberty Bell cracked, never to ring again. An apt symbol of the man who shaped both court and country, whose life "reads like an early history of the United States," as the Wall Street Journal noted, adding: Jean Edward Smith "does an excellent job of recounting the details of Marshall's life without missing the dramatic sweep of the history it encompassed." Working from primary sources, Jean Edward Smith has drawn an elegant portrait of a remarkable man. Lawyer, jurist, scholars; soldier, comrade, friend; and, most especially, lover of fine Madeira, good food, and animated table talk: the Marshall who emerges from these pages is noteworthy for his very human qualities as for his piercing intellect, and, perhaps most extraordinary, for his talents as a leader of men and a molder of consensus. A man of many parts, a true son of the Enlightenment, John Marshall did much for his country, and John Marshall: Definer of a Nation demonstrates this on every page.
James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist
Author: Karen E. RobbinsPublisher: University of Georgia Press
ISBN: 0820346314
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
A Scots-Irish immigrant, James McHenry determined to make something of his life. Trained as a physician, he joined the American Revolution when war broke out. He then switched to a more military role, serving on the staffs of George Washington and Lafayette. He entered government after the war and served in the Maryland Senate and in the Continental Congress. As Maryland's representative at the Constitutional Convention, McHenry helped to add the ex post facto clause to the Constitution and worked to increase free trade among the states. As secretary of war, McHenry remained loyal to Washington, under whom he established a regimental framework for the army that lasted well into the nineteenth century. Upon becoming president, John Adams retained McHenry; however, Adams began to believe McHenry was in league with other Hamiltonian Federalists who wished to undermine his policies. Thus, when the military buildup for the Quasi-War with France became unpopular, Adams used it as a pretext to request McHenry's resignation. Yet as Karen Robbins demonstrates in the first modern biography of McHenry, Adams was mistaken; the friendship between McHenry and Hamilton that Adams feared had grown sensitive and there was a brief falling out. Moreover, McHenry had asked Hamilton to withdraw his application for second-in-command of the New Army being raised. Nonetheless, Adams's misperception ended McHenry's career, and he has remained an obscure historical figure ever since--until now. James McHenry, Forgotten Federalist reveals a man surrounded by important events who reflected the larger themes of his time.