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John Adams : a Life.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Oxford : Oxford University Press, USA, 2010.Description: 1 online resource (544 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780199741717
  • 0199741719
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification:
  • 973.44092
LOC classification:
  • E322.F47 2010
Online resources:
Contents:
Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: Love of Fame; PART TWO: An Epocha in History; PART THREE: Safe and Glorious in the Harbour of Peace; PART FOUR: One Man of Inflexible Integrity; PART FIVE: I Still Live and Enjoy Life; Afterword; Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.
Summary: John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life an exciting time, an age in.
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Contents; Preface; Introduction; PART ONE: Love of Fame; PART TWO: An Epocha in History; PART THREE: Safe and Glorious in the Harbour of Peace; PART FOUR: One Man of Inflexible Integrity; PART FIVE: I Still Live and Enjoy Life; Afterword; Abbreviations; Notes; Select Bibliography; Index.

John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life an exciting time, an age in.

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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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