Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
Writings of John Quincy Adams: 1796-1801
Author: John Quincy AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 588
Book Description
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
Writings of John Quincy Adams
Author: John Quincy AdamsFamiliar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Writings of John Quincy Adams
Author: John Quincy AdamsWritings of John Quincy Adams: 1811-1813
Author: John Quincy AdamsWritings of John Quincy Adams: 1814-1816
Author: John Quincy AdamsLetter from Alexander Hamilton, Concerning the Public Conduct and Character of John Adams, Esq., President of the United States
Author: Alexander HamiltonThoughts on Government: Applicable to the Present State of the American Colonies
Author: John AdamsPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Constitutional history
Languages : en
Pages : 46
Book Description
John Quincy Adams and American Global Empire
Author: William Earl WeeksPublisher: University Press of Kentucky
ISBN: 0813184096
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
This is the story of a man, a treaty, and a nation. The man was John Quincy Adams, regarded by most historians as America's greatest secretary of state. The treaty was the Transcontinental Treaty of 1819, of which Adams was the architect. It acquired Florida for the young United States, secured a western boundary extending to the Pacific, and bolstered the nation's position internationally. As William Weeks persuasively argues, the document also represented the first determined step in the creation of an American global empire. Weeks follows the course of the often labyrinthine negotiations by which Adams wrested the treaty from a recalcitrant Spain. The task required all of Adams's skill in diplomacy, for he faced a tangled skein of domestic and international controversies when he became secretary of state in 1817. The final document provided the United States commercial access to the Orient—a major objective of the Monroe administration that paved the way for the Monroe Doctrine of 1823. Adams, the son of a president and later himself president, saw himself as destined to play a crucial role in the growth and development of the United States. In this he succeeded. Yet his legendary statecraft proved bittersweet. Adams came to repudiate the slave society whose interests he had served by acquiring Florida, he was disgusted by the rapacity of the Jacksonians, and he experienced profound guilt over his own moral transgressions while secretary of state. In the end, Adams understood that great virtue cannot coexist with great power. Weeks's book, drawn in part from articles that won the Stuart Bernath Prize, makes a lasting contribution to our understanding of American foreign policy and adds significantly to our picture of one of the nation's most important statesmen.
Adams Vs. Jefferson
Author: John E. FerlingPublisher: Pivotal Moments in American Hi
ISBN: 9780195189063
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 294
Book Description
A history of the presidential campaign follows the clash between the two candidates, Adams and Jefferson, and their different visions of the future of America, the machinations that led to Jefferson's victory, and the repercussions of the campaign.