The Portable John AdamsPenguin, 2004 M06 29 - 576 pages In addition to being an uncompromising defender of liberty, esteemed diplomat, and successor to George Washington, John Adams was a passionate and prolific writer. Adams biographer John Patrick Diggins gathers an impressive variety of his works in this compact, original volume, including parts of his diary and autobiography, and selections from his rich correspondence with this wife, Abigail, Thomas Jefferson, and others. The Portable John Adams also features his most important political works: “A Dissertation on Canon and Feudal Law,” “Thoughts on Government,” “A Defense of Constitutions,” “Novanglus,” and “Discources in Davila.” There is no finer introduction to the protean genius of this seminal American philosopher. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators. |
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... European critics. His thoughts express a prescient postmodern awareness that power will remain a presence even with the advent of democracy and that the purpose of government is to provide the mechanism to control it. He was also ...
... European critics. His thoughts express a prescient postmodern awareness that power will remain a presence even with the advent of democracy and that the purpose of government is to provide the mechanism to control it. He was also ...
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... Europe. After the war he was the first American to be presented at the Court of St. James's. During the many years Adams served abroad or in the nation's capital as vice president and president, wife Abigail often remained in Quincy for ...
... Europe. After the war he was the first American to be presented at the Court of St. James's. During the many years Adams served abroad or in the nation's capital as vice president and president, wife Abigail often remained in Quincy for ...
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... Europe. Not that immigrants would bring with them such clear class categories that had ridden Europe with class conflict. On the contrary, conflict had less to do with class structures than with deeper human emotions and anxieties—for ...
... Europe. Not that immigrants would bring with them such clear class categories that had ridden Europe with class conflict. On the contrary, conflict had less to do with class structures than with deeper human emotions and anxieties—for ...
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... Europe's corrupting social conflicts; Tocqueville saw America as having made a profound break with the Old World. Tocqueville's perspective came to be known as American exceptionalism. But was America exceptional? Tocqueville believed ...
... Europe's corrupting social conflicts; Tocqueville saw America as having made a profound break with the Old World. Tocqueville's perspective came to be known as American exceptionalism. But was America exceptional? Tocqueville believed ...
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... Europe, it was of importance that the General's character should be supported in other countries. I replied, that he might be perfectly at his ease on the subject, for he might depend upon it, that, both from principle and affection ...
... Europe, it was of importance that the General's character should be supported in other countries. I replied, that he might be perfectly at his ease on the subject, for he might depend upon it, that, both from principle and affection ...
Contents
DIARY AND AUTOBIOGRAPHY | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS Chapter 3 EARLIEST WRITINGS | |
A DISSERTATION ON CANON AND FEUDAL LAW Chapter 5 THOUGHTS ON GOVERNMENT Chapter 6NOVANGLUS Chapter 7 A DEFEN... | |
DISCOURSES ON DAVILA Chapter 9 CORRESPONDENCE WITH ROGER SHERMAN AND JOHN TAYLOR | |
CORRESPONDENCE OF JOHN AND ABIGAIL ADAMS WITH THOMAS JEFFERSON | |
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