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Author: John Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9780674654419 Category : Massachusetts Languages : en Pages :
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Vol. 14: John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the problem was Franklin's moral bankruptcy and servile Francophilia in the service of a duplicitous Comte de Vergennes. Volume 14 covers more than just the peace negotiations. As American minister to the Netherlands, Adams managed the distribution of funds from the Dutch-American loan. Always an astute observer, he commented on the fall of the Shelburne ministry and its replacement by the Fox-North coalition, the future of the Anglo-American relationship, and the prospects for the United States in the post-revolutionary world. But he was also an anxious father, craving news of John Quincy Adams's slow journey from St. Petersburg to The Hague. By May 1783, Adams was tired of Europe, but resigned to remaining until his work was done
Author: John Adams Publisher: ISBN: 9780674654419 Category : Massachusetts Languages : en Pages :
Book Description
Vol. 14: John Adams reached Paris on October 26, 1782, for the final act of the American Revolution: the peace treaty. This volume chronicles his role in the negotiations and the decision to conclude a peace separate from France. Determined that the United States pursue an independent foreign policy, Adams's letters criticized Congress's naive confidence in France. But in April 1783, frustrated at delays over the final treaty and at real and imagined slights from Congress and Benjamin Franklin, Adams believed the crux of the problem was Franklin's moral bankruptcy and servile Francophilia in the service of a duplicitous Comte de Vergennes. Volume 14 covers more than just the peace negotiations. As American minister to the Netherlands, Adams managed the distribution of funds from the Dutch-American loan. Always an astute observer, he commented on the fall of the Shelburne ministry and its replacement by the Fox-North coalition, the future of the Anglo-American relationship, and the prospects for the United States in the post-revolutionary world. But he was also an anxious father, craving news of John Quincy Adams's slow journey from St. Petersburg to The Hague. By May 1783, Adams was tired of Europe, but resigned to remaining until his work was done
Author: Sara Georgini Publisher: Oxford University Press ISBN: 0190882581 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 297
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The Providence of John and Abigail Adams -- John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams at prayer -- Charles Francis Adams on pilgrimage -- The cosmopolitan Christianity of Henry Adams -- Higher than a city upon a hill.
Author: Gary Gardner-Glynn Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 480
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There were several branches of the Adams family that immigrated to Massachusetts at an early date. It appears that most of them were related. Henry Adams (1583-1646) was born in England and settled in Braintree, Massachusetts. He was the ancestor of John Adams, second president of the United States. Other people named Adams which settled at an early date in Massachusetts were George Adams who settled in Watertown; John Adams who settled in Cambridge; and, Jeremy, Richard and Robert Adams. Descendants live in Massachusetts and throughout the United States.
Author: Joseph Gardner Bartlett Publisher: ISBN: Category : Reference Languages : en Pages : 212
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Henry Adams (ca. 1583-1646) was the son of John Adams and Agnes Stone, the grandson of Henry Adams, and the great-grandson of John Adams. He married Emily Squire, and the family emigrated in 1638 from England to Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts. Descendants and relatives lived in New England, New York, New Jersey, Washington, D.C. and elsewhere. Includes ancestry in England to about 1272 A.D. Famous descendants of Henry Adams include U.S. Presidents John Adams (1735-1826) and John Quincy Adams (1767-1848), Massachusetts governor Samuel Adams (1722-1803), and U.S. Representative and U.S. Emassador to Great Britain Charles Francis Adams (1807-1886).
Author: Douglas R Egerton Publisher: Basic Books ISBN: 154169970X Category : History Languages : en Pages : 477
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An enthralling chronicle of the American nineteenth century told through the unraveling of the nation's first political dynasty John and Abigail Adams founded a famous political family, but they would not witness its calamitous fall from grace. When John Quincy Adams died in 1848, so began the slow decline of the family's political legacy. In Heirs of an Honored Name, award-winning historian Douglas R. Egerton depicts a family grown famous, wealthy -- and aimless. After the Civil War, Republicans looked to the Adamses to steer their party back to its radical 1850s roots. Instead, Charles Francis Sr. and his children -- Charles Francis Jr., John Quincy II, Henry and Clover Adams, and Louisa Adams Kuhn -- largely quit the political arena and found refuge in an imagined past of aristocratic preeminence. An absorbing story of brilliant siblings and family strain, Heirs of an Honored Name shows how the burden of impossible expectations shaped the Adamses and, through them, American history.
Author: Abigail Adams Publisher: UPNE ISBN: 9781555535223 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 438
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The story of the Adamses as lovers, domestic partners, and patriots comes to life in this collection of their intimate correspondence.
Author: Joseph J. Ellis Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0307594319 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 321
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The Pulitzer Prize–winning, best-selling author of Founding Brothers and His Excellency brings America’s preeminent first couple to life in a moving and illuminating narrative that sweeps through the American Revolution and the republic’s tenuous early years. John and Abigail Adams left an indelible and remarkably preserved portrait of their lives together in their personal correspondence: both Adamses were prolific letter writers (although John conceded that Abigail was clearly the more gifted of the two), and over the years they exchanged more than twelve hundred letters. Joseph J. Ellis distills this unprecedented and unsurpassed record to give us an account both intimate and panoramic; part biography, part political history, and part love story. Ellis describes the first meeting between the two as inauspicious—John was twenty-four, Abigail just fifteen, and each was entirely unimpressed with the other. But they soon began a passionate correspondence that resulted in their marriage five years later. Over the next decades, the couple were separated nearly as much as they were together. John’s political career took him first to Philadelphia, where he became the boldest advocate for the measures that would lead to the Declaration of Independence. Yet in order to attend the Second Continental Congress, he left his wife and children in the middle of the war zone that had by then engulfed Massachusetts. Later he was sent to Paris, where he served as a minister to the court of France alongside Benjamin Franklin. These years apart stressed the Adamses’ union almost beyond what it could bear: Abigail grew lonely, while the Adams children suffered from their father’s absence. John was elected the nation’s first vice president, but by the time of his reelection, Abigail’s health prevented her from joining him in Philadelphia, the interim capital. She no doubt had further reservations about moving to the swamp on the Potomac when John became president, although this time he persuaded her. President Adams inherited a weak and bitterly divided country from George Washington. The political situation was perilous at best, and he needed his closest advisor by his side: “I can do nothing,” John told Abigail after his election, “without you.” In Ellis’s rich and striking new history, John and Abigail’s relationship unfolds in the context of America’s birth as a nation.
Author: Lyman Henry Butterfield Publisher: ISBN: Category : Presidents Languages : en Pages : 576
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A collection of letters exchanged by members of the Adams family through three full generations and part of a fourth beginning with the courtship of John Adams and Abigail Smith and ending with the death of Abigail Brooks Adams, wife of the first Charles Francis Adams, United States minister to London during the American Civil War.
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Author: Sara Georgini
Author: Gary Gardner-Glynn
Author: Joseph Gardner Bartlett
Author: Andrew Napoleon Adams
Author: John Adams
Author: Douglas R Egerton
Author: Abigail Adams
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Author: Lyman Henry Butterfield