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man for the ages. John Adams, philosopher of the Revolution and early America, and participant in many of the major events of that period, strove to fi nd universal patterns in the lives of all men. His life and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they were to his own. We still ponder the nature of the unbreakable bond between liberty and law. As did Adams, we question how to relate the goal of freedom to the authority necessary in political society.Tags
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- John Adams
- Original publication date
- 1969
- People/Characters
- John Adams
- Important places
- USA
- Dedication
- To Ralph W. Husted, a lawyer whom John Adams would have admired.
- First words
- The boy was young but his roots ran old and tough as the granite outcroppings that stabbed the thin New England earth....
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)His last words, a friend reported, were "Thomas Jefferson still lives." But Jefferson, too, had died, only a few hours earlier. For these two firm friends, ardent students of history and patriarchs of the nation's founding, it was an appropriately glorious end, a mighty coincidence in American annals.
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- Genres
- Nonfiction, History, Biography & Memoir, General Nonfiction, Politics and Government
- DDC/MDS
- 973.4 — History & geography History of North America United States Constitutional period (1789-1809)
- LCC
- E322 .B84 — History of the United States United States Revolution to the Civil War, 1775/1783-1861 By period 1789-1809. Constitutional period John Adams' administration, 1797-1801
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- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 7
- ASINs
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