A man's twenty-seventh year is "critical," according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and ...
In these volumes the second decade of the sixty-year "diary of Charles Francis Adams," the third of the family's statesmen, is begun. As was true of the two earlier volumes of the Diary, the section appearing here has not before reached print. Covering the period from Adams' marriage in September '829 to the end of 832, these volumes record th ...
"North American Range Plants" has established itself as an essential source in the identification of important range plants. The fifth edition, which includes fifteen new plants, reflects increased interest in wetland plants as well as changes in nomenclature and refinement of distribution information. The two hundred plants described were ...
'It is of course a familiar tribute to this enterprise to say that it disinters John Adams the man who gives him a place in history at last equal to that of any other Founding Father. In fact by publishing the family letters as a distinct series the editors enhance still more the vigorous personalities, human reactions, and often vehement opinions ...
"The Adams Family Correspondence," Mr. Butterfield writes, "is an unbroken record of the changing modes of domestic life, religious views and habits, travel, dress, servants, food, schooling, reading, health and medical care, diversions, and every other conceivable aspect of manners and taste among the members of a substantial New England family ...
In these volumes the second decade of the sixty-year "diary of Charles Francis Adams," the third of the family's statesmen, is begun. As was true of the two earlier volumes of the Diary, the section appearing here has not before reached print. Covering the period from Adams' marriage in September '829 to the end of 832, these volumes record th ...
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