Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848, Vol. 7 (Classic Reprint)

Author: John Quincy Adams

Publisher: Forgotten Books

Published: 2017-11-11

Total Pages: 554

ISBN-13: 9780260835031

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Excerpt from Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary From 1795 to 1848, Vol. 7 I desired him to confer with these Indians to-morrow morn ing, and ascertain what they wished to have done; what dis posable force may be directed to the threatened part of Georgia and what answer should be given to Governor Troup. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

The Golden Age of the Classics in America
The Golden Age of the Classics in America

Author: Carl J. Richard

Publisher: Harvard University Press

Published: 2009-03-23

Total Pages: 278

ISBN-13: 9780674032644

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Richard explores the enshrinement of the classics in American antebellum culture. For the first time, knowledge of the classics extended beyond aristocratic males to the middle class, women, African Americans, and frontier settlers, but the Civil War led to a radical alteration of the educational system that steadily eroded their preeminence.

The Politics of Corruption
The Politics of Corruption

Author: David P. Callahan

Publisher: University of Virginia Press

Published: 2022-07-05

Total Pages: 229

ISBN-13: 0813948436

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The Politics of Corruption examines the U.S. presidential election of 1824 as a critical contest in the nation’s political history, full of colorful characters and brimming with unexpected twists. This election inaugurated the transition from the sedate, elitist elections of the Jeffersonian era and propelled developments toward the showier yet also more democratized presidential races that came to characterize Jacksonian America. The Republican Party fielded all five candidates in 1824, a veritable who’s who of early republic notables: treasury secretary William Crawford, secretary of state John Quincy Adams, secretary of war John C. Calhoun, speaker of the House Henry Clay, and War of 1812 hero Andrew Jackson. This book recasts the 1824 election—conventionally regarded as a dull, intraparty affair—as one of the most exciting contests in American history. Using the correspondence and diaries of the principals involved, Callahan chronicles the ways in which the five candidates innovated political practices by creating dynamic organizations, sponsoring energetic newspaper networks, staging congressional legislative battles, and spreading vicious personal attacks against each other. In the end, Calhoun’s smear campaign fatally undermined front-runner Crawford, while self-styled political outsider Jackson successfully equated regular politics with corruption yet still lost the contest to Washington’s ultimate insider, John Quincy Adams. It was a defeat Jackson would not forget, animating him to fundamentally change the ways American politics was conducted ever after.

The Trials of a Scold
The Trials of a Scold

Author: Jeff Biggers

Publisher: Macmillan + ORM

Published: 2017-11-07

Total Pages: 261

ISBN-13: 1466871598

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The Trials of a Scold, by American Book Award-winning author Jeff Biggers, is a well-researched and passionate biography of Anne Royall, one of America's first female muckrakers, who was convicted as a "common scold" in 1829 in one of the most bizarre trials in the nation's history. Anne Royall was an American original, a stranger to fear, and one of the nation's most daring, impassioned, and indomitable social critics. A servant in the house of the man she would later marry, Royall read constantly and pursued an education that few women at that time had access to. When fifteen years later she was left widowed and destitute after her husband's family declared their marriage invalid, she turned to her writing, and to her political interests. Travelling from Alabama to Washington DC to Pennsylvania, Royall was a fiercely dedicated journalist. Her tenacity earned her the first presidential interview ever granted to a woman, but she acquired enemies for her scathing denouncement of the increasingly blurry lines between church and state. Royall's pioneering role as a chronicler, publisher, muckraker, and social commentator brought to light the timeless issues that still define the great American experience: religion and politics.

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams

Author: John Quincy Adams

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-02

Total Pages: 574

ISBN-13: 9781294701293

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.

Memoirs of John Quincy Adams
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams

Author: John Quincy Adams

Publisher: Nabu Press

Published: 2014-03

Total Pages: 556

ISBN-13: 9781295854943

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This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.