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The Character of John Adams

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Peter Shaw
2014
Published by: The University of North Carolina Press
Series: Published for the Omohundro Institute of Early American History and Culture, Williamsburg, Virginia
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The formal side of Adams is reconciled with his remarkably colorful private life by Shaw’s penetrating grasp of the whole man. Considerable attention is given to his clash of wills with Franklin in Europe and his later relationship with Jefferson. The account of Adams’s twenty-five years of retirement after losing the presidency resolves some of the dilemmas arising from the long career of a man who was never really suited by temperament for politics.

Originally published in 1976.

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Table of Contents

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Cover

Title page, Copyright, Dedication

Preface

pp. vii-ix

Contents

pp. xi

I: Ambition: 1735-1756

pp. 3-24

II: The Way to Fame, 1757-1761

pp. 25-40

III: Farewell Politicks, 1761-1773

pp. 41-75

IV: The Atlas of Independence, 1774-1777

pp. 76-105

V: The Ambassadors, 1778-1779

pp. 106-130

VI: French and Franklinian Politicks, 1779-1782

pp. 131-163

VII: Peace, 1782-1783

pp. 164-191

VIII: The Consolations of Philosophy, 1783-1788

pp. 192-224

IX: Great Sacrifices to Union, 1789-1796

pp. 225-246

X: President John Adams, 1796-1801

pp. 247-269

XI: The Monarch of Stoney Field, 1801-1812

pp. 270-299

XII: The Garrulity of Narrative Old Age, 1813-1826

pp. 300-318

Index

pp. 319-324

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