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John Quincy Adams : a personal history of an independent man / Marie B. Hecht.
- Title
- John Quincy Adams : a personal history of an independent man / Marie B. Hecht.
- Author
- Hecht, Marie B.
- Publication
- New York : Macmillan Company ; London : Collier-Macmillan Limited, [1972]
- ©1972
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Text | Request in advance | US 4661.79.25 | Off-site |
Details
- Additional Authors
- Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012
- Description
- xiv, 682 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits; 24 cm
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Association copies (Provenance)
- collective biographies.
- Biographies
- Biographies.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 629-665) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Landscape for an Adams -- The education of a diplomat -- The education of an American -- The reluctant lawyer -- Mission to Holland -- A romantic interlude -- At the Prussian court -- An introduction to politics -- A man of principle -- J.Q.A. and Alexander I, Czar of Russia -- The little Congress of Ghent -- The second Adams at the Court of St. James -- Mr. Secretary Adams -- The heir apparent -- President Monroe's message -- A Pyrrhic victory -- "The prison house of state" -- The tragic presidency -- Old Hickory versus John of Braintree -- The unquiet retirement -- The call -- "Old man eloquent" -- "The venerable Nestor of Massachusetts" -- Quincy's sage -- The final battle.
- LCCN
- 72077279
- OCLC
- 488426
- SCSB-10549176
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library