Details the coming of age, diplomatic and presidential career, private life, and legacy of America's second president.

Author: Barbara Silberdick Feinberg
Library Binding: 112 pages
Company: Children's Press(CT) (2003-09)
ISBN: 0516226800
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A biography of the second president of the United States.

Author: Heather Lehr Wagner
Hardcover: 21 pages
Company: Chelsea House Publications (2003-09)
ISBN: 0791076032
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The most comprehensive one-volume collection of John Adams' political writings ever published.

Author: John Adams
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Stephen Skowronek's wholly innovative study demonstrates that presidents are persistent agents of change, continually disrupting and transforming the political landscape. In an afterword to this new edition, the author examines "third way" leadership as it has been practiced by Bill Clinton and others. These leaders are neither great repudiators nor orthodox innovators. They challenge received political categories, mix seemingly antithetical doctrines, and often take their opponents' issues as their own. As the 1996 election confirmed, third way leadership has great electoral appeal. The question is whether Clinton in his second term will escape the convulsive end so often associated with the type.

Author: Stephen Skowronek
Paperback: 576 pages
Company: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press (1997-03-25)
ISBN: 0674689372
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A biography of the outspoken, decisive man who served the United States in many ways, including as its President.

Author: Marlene Targ Brill
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Company: Children's Press (CT) (1989-06)
ISBN: 0516413848
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The rare man who can sift the unchanging out of a constantly changing world is a man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to find universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society. Adams viewed man as a being of liberty subject to God’s law. This colored his answer to the fundamental problem of how to reconcile liberty and law. His solution was not original. It was an answer rooted in the thought of classical Greek, Roman and English political philosophers. Moreover, it was the answer of a lawyer who, by his very profession, viewed man as an historian whose accumulated experience in history tells us about human nature. Because the principles of politics and human nature that he delineated are still relevant, Adams correctly shares a place as one of America’s outstanding political thinkers. Burleigh gives us a warm, sensitive study of John Adams in the many roles he played during his eventful life: student, lawyer, polemicist, Founding Father, diplomat, President, husband, father. His own brilliance and the events of the times in which he lived combined to offer him the knowledge and fame he sought. Her new introduction explains our continuing interest in this central figure of the early years of the American Republic.

Author: Anne Burleigh
Paperback: 449 pages ISBN13: 9781412810005, Condition: New, Notes: BUY WITH CONFIDENCE, Over one million books sold! 98% Positive feedback. Compare our books, prices and service to the competition. 100% Satisfaction Guaranteed
Company: Transaction Publishers (2009-03-07)
ISBN: 1412810000
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Author: Jane C. Walker
Library Binding: 128 pages
Company: Enslow Publishers (2002-12)
ISBN: 0766017044
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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.

Author: Stephen Feinstein
Library Binding: 48 pages
Company: Enslow Publishers (2002-03)
ISBN: 0766050017
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Presents a biography of John Adams

Author: Mike Venezia
Paperback: 32 pages
Company: Children's Press(CT) (2005-03)
ISBN: 0516274767
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Until recently rescued by David McCullough, John Adams has always been overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson. Volatile, impulsive, irritable, and self-pitying, Adams seemed temperamentally unsuited for the presidency. Yet in many ways he was the perfect successor to Washington in terms of ability, experience, and popularity. Possessed of a far-ranging intelligence, Adams took office amid the birth of the government and multiple crises. Besides maintaining neutrality and regaining peace, his administration created the Department of the Navy, put the army on a surer footing, and left a solvent treasury. One of his shrewdest acts was surely the appointment of moderate Federalist John Marshall as Chief Justice of the Supreme Court. Though he was a Federalist, he sought to work outside the still-forming party system. In the end, this would be Adams's greatest failing and most useful lesson to later leaders.

Author: John Patrick Diggins
Hardcover: 224 pages
Company: Times Books (2003-06-11)
ISBN: 0805069372
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