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4) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Description
In this powerful, epic biography, David McCullough unfolds the adventurous life journey of John Adams, the brilliant, fiercely independent, often irascible, always honest Yankee patriot who spared nothing in his zeal for the American Revolution; who rose to become the second president of the United States and saved the country from blundering into an unnecessary war; who was learned beyond all but a few and regarded by some as "out of his senses";...
Author
Publisher
Knopf
Pub. Date
2010.
Language
English
Description
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,...
8) John Adams
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2004.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the second president of the United States.
Author
Publisher
Clarion
Pub. Date
c1959.
Language
English
Description
An intellectual dialogue of the highest plane achieved in America, the correspondence between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson spanned half a century and embraced government, philosophy, religion, quotidiana, and family griefs and joys. First meeting as delegates to the Continental Congress in 1775, they initiated correspondence in 1777, negotiated jointly as ministers in Europe in the 1780s, and served the early Republic--each, ultimately, in its...
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
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.
12) John Adams
Author
Series
Publisher
Enslow
Pub. Date
c2002.
Language
English
Description
A biography of the second President of the United States, who also served as the country's ambassador to France and as its first Vice President. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to John Adams.
15) The early years
Author
Series
Young nation America 1787-1861 volume 2
Publisher
Grolier
Pub. Date
2002.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Scholastic Press
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
A dual portrait of two American founding fathers shares introductions to the many ways they helped a young United States in spite of their disparate views, tracing how they overcame interpersonal differences at key points in the nation's early history.
Author
Publisher
Owl
Pub. Date
1996.
Language
English
Description
John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is the most comprehensive single-volume biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman.
18) John Adams
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
Examines the childhood, political career, and other activities of the second president of the United States.
Author
Series
Publisher
Chelsea House
Pub. Date
c2009.
Language
English
Description
Abigail Adams was one half of America's first husband-and-wife political team. Abigail, and her husband, John, the second president of the United States, were both major players in the birth of the United States. This biography details the triumphs and tragedies of her life.
20) John Adams under fire: the founding father's fight for justice in the Boston Massacre murder trial
Author
Language
English
Description
History remembers John Adams as a Founding Father and our country's second president. But in the tense years before the American Revolution, he was still just a lawyer, fighting for justice in one of the most explosive murder trials of the era. On the night of March 5, 1770, shots were fired by British soldiers on the streets of Boston, killing five civilians. The Boston Massacre has often been called the first shots of the American Revolution. As...
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