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Papers of John Adams
February 1784 – March 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2012
967 kr
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“Once more after an Interruption of ten Years, I pronounce myself a happy Man, and pray Heaven to continue me so.” Thus wrote John Adams in late August 1784 after the arrival in Europe of his wife Abigail and daughter Nabby. Adams and his family were living together in the pleasant Paris suburb of …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 14
October 1799 – February 1801
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2019
870 kr
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John and Abigail Adams’ reflections on an emerging nation as they move into the new President’s House in Washington, D.C., are a highlight of the nearly 280 letters written over seventeen months printed in volume 14 of Adams Family Correspondence. The volume opens with the Adamses’ public and …
Papers of John Adams
June 1789 – February 1791
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2020
915 kr
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John Adams’s shaping of the vice presidency dominates this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles a formative era in American government spanning June 1789 to February 1791. As the first federal Congress struggled to interpret the US Constitution and implement a new economic …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 15
March 1801 – October 1804
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
897 kr
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John and Abigail Adams remained fully engaged in American political life after they left Washington, DC, for retirement in Quincy. A highlight of Volume 15 of Adams Family Correspondence is a series of letters between Abigail Adams and Thomas Jefferson that debated fundamental questions of the …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 16
November 1804 – July 1809
Av Adams Adams Family, Hobson Woodward m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
870 kr
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A growing tension between the United States and Great Britain permeates the 236 letters printed in Volume 16 of Adams Family Correspondence. The Embargo Act of 1807 cut off trade with the British in response to the harassment of American ships. John and Abigail Adams witnessed their neighbors’ …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 21 – March 1791 – January 1797
March 1791 – January 1797
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2022
942 kr
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Vice President John Adams and the US government faced a turbulent world of rebellion in this volume of the Papers of John Adams, which chronicles the period from March 1791 to January 1797. The grim shadow of the French Revolution and the whirlwind of a massive European war left political leaders …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 22 – February 1797 – February 1798
February 1797 – February 1798
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
915 kr
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Entering the presidency in full service to the American people, John Adams vowed: “Their Confidence, which has been the Chief Consolation of my Life, is too prescious and Sacred a deposit ever to be considered lightly.” This volume of the Papers of John Adams charts the period from February 1797 to …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 12
March 1797 – April 1798
Av Adams Adams Family, Sara Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2015
951 kr
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Volume 12 of Adams Family Correspondence, with 276 documents spanning from March 1797 through April 1798, opens with the inauguration of John Adams as president and closes just after details of the XYZ affair are made public in America. Through private networks of correspondence, the Adamses reveal …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 18 – December 1785 – January 1787
December 1785 – January 1787
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2016
915 kr
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Volume 18 is the final volume of the Papers of John Adams wholly devoted to Adams’ diplomatic career. It chronicles fourteen months of his tenure as minister to Great Britain and his joint commission, with Thomas Jefferson, to negotiate treaties with Europe and North Africa. With respect to …
Papers of John Adams
April–November 1785
Av John Adams, Gregg L. Lint m. fl.
Inbunden, 2014
997 kr
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"You may well Suppose that I was the Focus of all Eyes," John Adams wrote on 2 June 1785 of his first audience with George III, which formally inaugurated the post of American minister to Great Britain. Eager to restore "the old good Nature and the old good Humour" between the two nations, Adams …
Papers of John Adams, Volume 19 – February 1787 – May 1789
February 1787 – May 1789
Av John Adams, Sara Georgini m. fl.
Inbunden, 2018
897 kr
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“Huzza for the new World and farewell to the Old One,” John Adams wrote in late 1787, wrapping up a decade’s worth of diplomatic service in Europe. Volume 19 of the Papers of John Adams chronicles Adams’s last duties in London and The Hague. In the twenty-eight months documented here, he petitioned …
Adams Family Correspondence, Volume 13
May 1798 – September 1799
Av Adams Adams Family, Sara Martin m. fl.
Inbunden, 2017
888 kr
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The almost 300 letters in volume 13 of Adams Family Correspondence were written during seventeen tumultuous months of John Adams’s presidency. Consumed with executive duties, he depended on surrogates for much of his correspondence with family members. From Quincy, an ailing Abigail Adams wrote …
