The Portable John AdamsPenguin, 29 iun. 2004 - 576 pagini 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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... France for its faith in progress, its belief in unanimity at the cost of diversity, and its assumption that the advent of knowledge would constitute an answer to the threat of power. Most postmodernists, flowering in France or in ...
... France for its faith in progress, its belief in unanimity at the cost of diversity, and its assumption that the advent of knowledge would constitute an answer to the threat of power. Most postmodernists, flowering in France or in ...
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... France in the 1830s and rarely well known in America until the post-World War II years. Although Tocqueville did not address Adams specifically, he did question the theory of the American founding and suggested, in contradiction to ...
... France in the 1830s and rarely well known in America until the post-World War II years. Although Tocqueville did not address Adams specifically, he did question the theory of the American founding and suggested, in contradiction to ...
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... France and Holland make for good reading, not to mention his gibes at Ben Franklin. To accompany Adams is to see the world as he saw it in the late eighteenth century. DIARY. [1756. FEBRUARY] 15. Sunday. Staid at home reading the ...
... France and Holland make for good reading, not to mention his gibes at Ben Franklin. To accompany Adams is to see the world as he saw it in the late eighteenth century. DIARY. [1756. FEBRUARY] 15. Sunday. Staid at home reading the ...
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... France. As I could scarcely believe the news to be true, and suspected Langdon to be sporting with me, it did not disconcert me. As I had never solicited such an appointment, not intimated to any one the smallest inclination for it, the ...
... France. As I could scarcely believe the news to be true, and suspected Langdon to be sporting with me, it did not disconcert me. As I had never solicited such an appointment, not intimated to any one the smallest inclination for it, the ...
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... France. It should have been observed before, that in announcing to me the intelligence of my appointment, Langdon neither expressed congratulation nor regret, but I soon afterwards had evidence enough that he lamented Mr. Deane's recall ...
... France. It should have been observed before, that in announcing to me the intelligence of my appointment, Langdon neither expressed congratulation nor regret, but I soon afterwards had evidence enough that he lamented Mr. Deane's recall ...
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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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