John Adams: Party of OneMacmillan, 2005 M03 16 - 530 páginas An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president. John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing the right thing, or more contemptuous of doing the merely popular thing. Yet his Yankee-bred fixation with ethical propriety and fiscal conservatism never stood in the way of his doing what was necessary. Adams hated debt, but as minister to the Netherlands during the Revolution, he was America's premier junk-bond salesman. And though raised a traditional Massachusetts Congregationalist, Adams was instrumental in bringing about the consecration of the first American Episcopal bishops. He was a warm and magnanimous friend and, on occasion, a man who fully vindicated the famous judgment of a rival he detested. Adams, said Benjamin Franklin, "means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but, sometimes, and in some things, is absolutely out of his senses." James Grant examines this complex and often contradictory founding father in the most well-rounded and multi-faceted portrait of Adams to date. Going from his beginnings on a hardscrabble Massachusetts farm to the Continental Congress to the Court of St. James and the White House, Grant traces the words and deeds of one of our most learned but politically star-crossed leaders. |
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Contenido
More Fortunate than All My Fellow Citizens | 3 |
Son of Puritans | 15 |
Glowing Like Furnaces | 41 |
From So Small a Spark | 52 |
Hearty in the Cause | 70 |
In Defense of Captain Preston | 85 |
In Opposition to the Rising Sun | 99 |
Faith of Brattle Street | 113 |
Peacemaker JunkBond Promoter | 268 |
Joyous Reunion | 296 |
Minister to the Court of St James | 311 |
Stuffed Shirt | 341 |
Mr Vice President | 359 |
President by Three Votes | 375 |
Party of One | 403 |
Road to Tranquillity | 430 |
A Man of 1774 | 125 |
Whirlwind | 161 |
Conquer or Die | 180 |
Making of a Diplomat | 190 |
A Yankee in Paris | 200 |
Constitution Monger | 221 |
Fencing with Count Vergennes | 233 |
Triumph in Amsterdam | 248 |
Notes | 451 |
382 | 484 |
Franklin and the Ladies of Paris New Haven Conn Yale University Press 1990 24647 | 488 |
Van Doren Benjamin Franklin 647 | 493 |
52627 | 497 |
Bibliography | 499 |
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