Author: John Adams
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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.
Papers of John Adams
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 488
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.
Legal Papers of John Adams
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN:
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 1424
Book Description
Diary and Autobiography of John Adams: Diary, 1771-1781
Familiar Letters of John Adams and His Wife Abigail Adams, During the Revolution
Author: John Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
My Dearest Friend
Author: Abigail Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674057058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Spanning nearly forty years, the letters collected in this volume form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674057058
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 549
Book Description
Spanning nearly forty years, the letters collected in this volume form the most significant correspondence—and reveal one of the most intriguing and inspiring partnerships—in American history.
The Adams-Jefferson Letters
Author: John Adams
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Presidents
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
The Earliest Diary of John Adams
Author: John Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674220003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This early diary of John Adams contains material about his life as an undergraduate at Harvard, his law studies, his ambitions, and his observations on girls. -- Dust jacket.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674220003
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 160
Book Description
This early diary of John Adams contains material about his life as an undergraduate at Harvard, his law studies, his ambitions, and his observations on girls. -- Dust jacket.
Adams Family Correspondence
Author: Lyman Henry Butterfield
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674022782
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 596
Book Description
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.
A Traveled First Lady
Author: Louisa Catherine Adams
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674369270
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description
Louisa Catherine Adams was daughter-in-law and wife of presidents, assisted diplomat J. Q. Adams at three European capitals, and served as a D.C. hostess for three decades. Yet she is barely remembered today. A Traveled First Lady (with Foreword by Laura Bush) corrects this oversight, by sharing Adams's remarkable story in her own words.
Abigail Adams: Letters (LOA #275)
Author: Abigail Adams
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.
Publisher: Library of America
ISBN: 1598535293
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1180
Book Description
Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John Adams, John Quincy Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Mercy Otis Warren, James and Dolley Madison, and Martha Washington, among many others. Including her famous call to “Remember the Ladies,” letters from the 1760s and 1770s offer an unrivalled portrait of the American Revolution on the home front. Travel to Europe in the 1780s opens a grand new field for her talents as social commentator and political advisor while her roles as vice presidential and presidential wife place her at the very heart of the nation’s founding. Also included are a chronology of Adams’s life, detailed notes, and extensively researched family trees. This volume is published simultaneously with John Adams: Writings from the New Nation 1784–1826, the third and final volume in the Library of America John Adams edition. LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.