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Del 3 - Diaries

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

September 1829 – December 1832

AvCharles Francis Adams Jr.,Marc Friedlaenderm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1968

1 673 kr

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In these volumes the second decade of the sixty-year diary of Charles Francis Adams, the third of the family’s statesmen, is begun. As was true of the two earlier volumes of the Diary, the section appearing here has not before reached print.Covering the period from Adams’s marriage in September 1829 to the end of 1832, these volumes record the early years of his maturity during which he was seeking to find his vocation. Engaged in the day-to-day management of John Adams’s business interests in Boston, he nevertheless had no inclination toward commerce or the active practice of law. Son and grandson of presidents, proud heir to a name already great and controversial in American politics, he also at this time considered himself “not fitted for the noise of public life.” Dependent for support on his father and father-in-law but determined to maintain his independence, he devoted his available time to a program of studies and writing that would prepare him for a career he hesitated to name but in which he wished distinction. His own public career still years away, he was drawn at this period to the study of American history and his famous grandparents’ papers, an effort that would continue and that would make him the family’s archivist and editor.These volumes offer manifold opportunities for an enlarged understanding of a complex and able man who was later to assume positions of high responsibility. In addition to furnishing innumerable personal and familial insights, this portion of the diary is of capital importance for the historian of society and culture. Probably no more detailed and faithful record exists of Boston life in the period.

Del 12 - Adams Papers

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

January 1833 – June 1836

AvCharles Francis Adams Jr.,L. H. Butterfieldm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1974

1 673 kr

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A man’s twenty-seventh year is “critical,” according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved to be. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and his father, John Quincy Adams, regarded as betrayal of the elder Adams by Daniel Webster and his Whigs. Once in, however, he showed himself politically adept.This diary, kept from January 1833 to June 1836 and hitherto unpublished, has elements of hidden personal drama. Through private meetings and caucuses and newspaper articles signed with pseudonyms, the younger Adams found effective means to carry on political activities in the face of dilemmas posed by his father’s public prominence, his father-in-law’s contrary persuasions, and his own preferences. He emerged with growing self-respect and solid accomplishment as political journalist—his initial vocation.The diary has fresh disclosures also about the personality of John Quincy Adams, shrewdly assessed by an observer uniquely placed to interpret domestic scenes as well as the greatly waged struggles in Washington against the Southern “slaveocracy” and “gag rules.”Colorful figures in Boston’s political and social life are finely etched in outspoken appraisals characteristic of the Adamses. The diarist shows acuteness too in comments on books, sermons, paintings, the theater, and opera.

Del 7 - Diaries

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

June 1836 – February 1840

AvCharles Francis Adams Jr.,Marc Friedlaenderm. fl.

Inbunden, Engelska, 1986

1 673 kr

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The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adams’s twenty-eighth to thirty-second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Buren administration he had helped to elect dissatisfied him, the Massachusetts Whig leadership had earned his distrust, positions on political issues that would either echo or oppose those being vigorously espoused by his father, John Quincy Adams, he felt inhibited from avowing publicly. So confronted, Charles found occupation in preparing and expressing himself on economic matters of moment—banking and currency—and moral questions generated by the slavery issue. With increasing effectiveness he employed the lecture platform and the press for the expression of views to which he felt free to attach his name. On all these matters he found his opinions at odds with the prevailing ones held among those prominent in the Boston scene, as John Adams and John Quincy Adams had found before him. Yet, despite a sense of loneliness, so induced, his participation in the varied social life of the city has its place in the Diary.However, activities in Boston and its environs that provided a focus for the record of the preceding years give way in these volumes to wider scenes made available by train and ship. An extensive journey with his wife by way of the Hudson River and the Erie Canal to Niagara and Canada, a visit of some length and interest in Washington, and stays of lesser length in New York City are recounted.Wide and persistent reading, the theater, numismatics, and the building of a summer home in Quincy also occupied him and are fully reflected in his journal. Family tragedies are not absent from its pages. As the period comes to its close his long and distinguished labors as editor of the family’s papers had begun. A new self-assurance has become evident.

Chapters of Erie

AvCharles Francis Adams Jr.,Henry Adams

Häftad, Engelska, 2009

306 kr

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Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America—in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's successful effort to gain control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 and subsequent attempt to corner the American gold market, which resulted in the "Black Friday" panic of September 24, 1869.Seizing upon the opportunity provided by the scandals to expose the links between financial malpractice on Wall Street and political favoritism and corruption, Henry Adams and his older brother Charles Francis Adams, Jr., traveled to New York and Washington to interview the participants (including Fisk), observe the Congressional hearings on the gold conspiracy, and reconstruct in forensic detail the machinations that had shaken the nation's economy. First appearing in a series of articles in the Westminster Review and the North American Review in 1870 and 1871, the results of the Adams brothers' investigative journalism were published as a book in 1886. Reissued by Cornell University Press in 1956 with a preface by Robert H. Elias, Chapters of Erie remains a well-documented, perceptive, and sometimes sardonic examination of the relationship between business and politics in America—and a warning about the dangers posed by unregulated corporations "to override and trample on law, custom, decency, and every restraint known to society, without scruple."

Imperialism and the Tracks of Our Forefathers

A Paper.

Charles Francis Adams Jr. – författare

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

Chapters of Erie

Imperialism and the Tracks of Our Forefathers

Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915

Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Oration Delivered Before the City Council and Citizens of Boston in Faneuil Hall

Appeal from the New to the Old Whigs

Correspondence Respecting the Alabama

Seward and the Declaration of Paris a Forgotten Diplomatic Episode April-August, 1861

Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners, Volume 15

Report of the Board of Metropolitan Park Commissioners; Volume 15

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary From 1795 to 1848

Works

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary From 1795 to 1848

Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary From 1795 to 1848

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary From 1795 to 1848 Volume 08

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of his Diary From 1795 to 1848 Volume 06

Life of John Adams. Begun by John Quincy Adams. Completed by Charles Francis Adams.

Life of John Adams. Begun by John Quincy Adams. Completed by Charles Francis Adams.

address delivered at Cambridge before the society of the Phi beta kappa,

Chapters of Erie, and Other Essays.

New Departure In The Common Schools Of Quincy

Notes On Railroad Accidents (1879)

New English Canaan Of Thomas Morton

Three Phi Beta Kappa Addresses

'Tis Sixty Years Since