The existence of this diary was totally unsuspected until its recent and somewhat accidental discovery among papers at the Vermont Historical Society during a search by Wendell D. Garrett, associate editor of the Adams Papers, for Adams family letters of a later period. In part, the diary antedates by more than two years all other diaries of ...
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 ...
'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 ...
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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