Isbn: 9780813123073 - adams on adams (9 resultados)

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. With dust jacket. It's a well-cared-for item that has seen limited use. The item may show minor signs of wear. All the text is legible, with all pages included. It may have slight markings and/or highlighting.

Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. HARDCOVER Very Good - Crisp, clean, unread book with some shelfwear/edgewear, may have a remainder mark - NICE Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condición: Good. HARDCOVER Good - Bumped and creased book with tears to the extremities, but not affecting the text block, may have remainder mark or previous owner's name - GOOD Standard-sized.

Hardcover. Condición: New. Estado de la sobrecubierta: New. 200 pp; Excellent book.

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Hardcover. Condición: Fine. Estado de la sobrecubierta: Fine. First Edition. Inscribed by Paul M. Zall on the title page. "Drawing from Adams's own letters, diaries, notes, and autobiographies, editor Paul M. Zall creates a fresh portrait of the nation's second president. Adams's words reveal how a man lacking the advantages of money, connections, class, or patronage promoted American independence at home and abroad." Octavo: xvii, [1], 181 p. Original gray cloth binding, with black titles. A fine copy in a fine dust jacket.…

Hardcover. Condición: New.

Gebunden. Condición: New. Zall s commentary illuminates Adams s words, focusing on how Adams s inner strengths -- in conflict with a sense of inferiority and an obsession with fame -- helped win government under law at home and national respect abroad. In Adams on Adams we are at l.

Buch. Condición: Neu. Neuware - After more than two hundred years in the shadows of Washington and Jefferson, John Adams enjoys fame as one of our top presidents. Of unprepossessing appearance and feisty temperament, he expressed his personal feelings in copious correspondence and public documents along with two unfinished autobiographies.Paul M. Zall draws from Adams's own letters, diaries, notes and autobiographies to create a fresh portrait. Adams's writings, both public and private, trace his rise from country lawyer to the nation's highest office by the sheer force of his personality. Lacking the advantages of money, connections, class, or patronage, Adams used 'the severest and most incessant labor' to promote American independence. Zall's commentary illuminates Adams's words, focusing on how Adams's inner strengths--in conflict with a sense of inferiority and an obsession with fame--helped win government under law at home and national respect abroad. Borne along by an irresistible sense of Spartan duty and refusing to compromise high principles for cheap popularity, he sacrificed family, fortune, and even fame. In Adams on Adams we are at last able to hear Adams describe his extraordinary journey in his own words.…