Adams, John
Contents: Love sweetens life, October 1762-July 1774 -- The decisive day is come, August 1774-December 1775 -- We are determined to foment a rebelion, January-October 1776 -- Kind providence has preserved to me a life, January-November 1777 -- I cast my thoughts across the Atlantick, February 1778-April 1782 -- A signal tryumph, July 1782-March 1788 -- The most insignificant office, December 1788-January...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Belknap Press of Harvard University Press 2007
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.4 ADAAdams, John
Summary: "... includes the complete newspaper exchange between Novanglus (Adams) and Massachusettensis (loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters"--Jacket.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.3 ADAAdams, John
Summary: "Traces John Adams's career from his leading role in the debate over independence, [...] to his tireless efforts to establish the fledgling government of the United States and supply its army in the filed, to his crucial diplomatic service in Europe [...]. It includes his hightly influential 1776 pamphlet Thoughts on Government, dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2011
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Summary: A powerful polemicist, insightful political theorist, and tireless diplomat, John Adams (1735–1826) was a vital and controversial figure during the early years of the American republic. Once overshadowed by Washington and Jefferson, Adams has become the subject of renewed interest, with a best-selling biography and acclaimed television series reintroducing him to millions. Now, this final...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2016
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Summary: Abigail Adams was an unusually accomplished letter writer. Spirited and insightful, her correspondence offers a unique vantage on historical events in which her family played so prominent a role, while bringing vividly to life the everyday experience of American women in the eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Here are 430 letters—more than a hundred published for the first time—to John...
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Publisher / Publication Date: The Library Of America 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 816 ADAAdams, Henry
Contents: Contains the first two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of Thomas Jefferson, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of Thomas Jefferson.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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Contents: Contains the last two parts of History of the United States of America during the first administration of James Madison, and History of the United States of America during the second administration of James Madison.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1986
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Contents: Short ride in a fast machine (4:05) -- The wound-dresser (19:19) -- Berceuse eĺeǵiaque (9:27) -- Shaker loops (25:28).
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Publisher / Publication Date: Naxos 2004
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD CLASSICAL ADAElston, Heidi M. D.
Summary: This biography introduces readers to John Adams including his early political career and key events from Adams's administration including the French Revolution the Alien and Sedition Acts. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars provide additional information. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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Summary: Volume I begins during the American Revolution, with Adams's first entry, as he prepares to embark on a perilous wartime voyage to Europe with his father, diplomat John Adams, and records his early impressions of Franklin and Jefferson and of Paris on the eve of revolution; it details his abbreviated but eventful years of study at Harvard and his emergence into the world of politics in his own...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY ADAElston, Heidi M. D.
Summary: This biography introduces readers to John Quincy Adams his political career as a Massachusetts state senator, US senator, US secretary of state, minister to the Netherlands, Prussia, Russia, and Great Britain, and US president extending the Cumberland Road into Ohio. Information about his childhood, family, personal life, and retirement years is included. A timeline, fast facts, and sidebars...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Checkerboard Library an imprint of ABDO Publishing 2021
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADASummary: Relying heavily on the correspondence between the second president, John Adams, and his wife, Abigail Adams, this joint biography sheds light on the characters of two people who played crictical roles in the history of the United States and on the tumultuous times through which they lived. He was a participant in the Continental Congress and a wartime emissary to France as well as becoming the...
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Publisher / Publication Date: PBS Home Video 2006
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV JOHAdams, Henry
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Publisher / Publication Date: Library of America 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, HENRY ADAAdams, John
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Publisher / Publication Date: Elektra/Nonesuch 1988
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Summary: "This biography tells the story of Abigail Adams and her role in America's Revolutionary War period"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grosset & Dunlap, an imprint of Penguin Group (USA) LLC 2014
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1 available in Juvenile, Call number: JB BASKET ADAMSSummary: While our new nation was suffering attacks from both within and without, John Adams had a vision of a nation of liberty and justice for all. He guided his peers--General George Washington, Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson--in setting the values and agenda for a glorious, free America. Adams and his wife Abigail refined these ambitious democratic ideals, and their partnership became one of...
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Publisher / Publication Date: HBO Video 2008
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1 available in Digital Video Disc, Call number: DVD TV Series John 2008Abrams, Jeanne E.
Summary: How the three inaugural First Ladies defined the role for future generations, and carved a space for women in AmericaAmerica's first First Ladies--Martha Washington, Abigail Adams, and Dolley Madison--had the challenging task of playing a pivotal role in defining the nature of the American presidency to a fledgling nation and to the world. In First Ladies of the Republic, Jeanne Abrams breaks...
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York University Press 2018
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 920 ARBAdams, Henry
Summary: The library of America is dedicated to publishing America's best and most significant writing in handsome, enduring volumes, featuring authoritative texts. Hailed as the "finest-looking, longest-lasting editions ever made" (The New Republic), Library of America volumes make a fine gift for any occasion. Now, with exactly one hundred volumes to choose from, there is a perfect gift for everyone.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Literary Classics of the United States 1983
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Contents: Best of me (3:33) -- Can't stop this thing we started (4:29) -- I'm ready (4:29) -- Summer of '69 (3:34) -- Let's make a night to remember (6:19) -- All for love / (With Rod Stewart and Sting) (4:36) -- Have you ever really loved a woman (4:48) -- Run to you (3:54) -- Cloud number nine (4:11) -- (Everything I do) I do it for you (6:34) -- Back to you (4:30) -- When you're gone / (featuring Mel...
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Publisher / Publication Date: A&M Records 2002
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1 available in Compact Audio Disc, Call number: CD POP/ROCK ADAAdams, Ansel
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Publisher / Publication Date: New York Graphic Society 1977
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Contents: Kings River Canyon, California -- Grand Canyon National Park, Arizona -- Native Americans and their lands -- Zion National Park, Utah -- Saguaro National Monument, Arizona -- Death Valley National Monument, California -- Carlsbad Caverns National Park, New Mexico -- Boulder Dam, Colorado -- Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado -- Grand Teton National Park, Wyoming -- Yellowstone National...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Artabras 1995
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1 available in Oversize, Call number: OVS 779.3678 AdaAdams, Douglas
Summary: In this collection of novels, Arthur Dent is introduced to the galaxy at large when he is rescued by an alien friend seconds before Earth's destruction, and embarks on a series of amazing adventures with his new companion.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Gramercy Books 2005
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Contents: How to predict the future -- Aging -- Technology predictions -- Life on other plants -- The world gets more complicated -- The future of democracy and capitalism -- The future of gender relations -- The future of work -- Marketing in the future -- Good and bad jobs of the future -- Social stuff -- Endangered species -- Some things won't improve -- A new view of the future -- Appn. A....
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperBusiness 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 817 AdamsAdams, Colleen.
Summary: Uses primary source documents, narrative, and illustrations to recount the history of the Women's Rights Movement in America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rosen Central Primary Source 2003