Isenberg, Nancy
Summary: "John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (and it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results, and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Viking 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 ISEThomas, Louisa
Summary: An intimate portrait of Louisa Catherine Adams, the wife of John Quincy Adams, who witnessed firsthand the greatest transformations of her time.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Penguin Press 2016
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, LOUISA THOCopies Available at Interlochen
1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: Hist Wom ThomasElston, 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: Chronicles the 1839 revolt on board the slave ship Amistad bound for America. Much of the story involves the court-room drama about the slave who led the revolt.
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Publisher / Publication Date: DreamWorks Home Entertainment 1999
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1 available in Drama DVDs, Call number: DVD DRAMA AMISouter, Gerry.
Summary: Documents the life and career of the sixth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Child's World, Inc. 2002
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1 available in Stacks, Call number: JB ADAMS SOUSummary: A fresh and relevant narrative about the men who led this country through change and the lives they affected, from an early idea of democracy to our first African-American President.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Disney Educational Productions 2010
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1 available in E-TV DVDs, Call number: DVD E-TV AMEAdams, John Quincy
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 ADALevin, Phyllis Lee.
Summary: A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "the greatest traveler of his age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Palgrave Macmillan 2015
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1 available in Adult, Call number: 921 ADAKrensky, Stephen
Summary: In 1778, ten-year-old Johnny Adams and his father make a dangerous mid-winter voyage from Massachusetts to Paris in hopes of gaining support for the colonies during the American Revolution.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Dutton Children's Books 2005
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1 available in Juvenile Easy, Call number: JE KREBrookhiser, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Thorndike Press 2002
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Place a hold to request this item.Summary: Television mini-series that dramatizes four generations of Adamses and 150 years of American history from the birth of the Revolution through the Gilded Age. Meet John Adams, a passionate revolutionary and second president; John Quincy Adams, proud son of a famous father and sixth president; Charles Francis Adams, skillful minister to Great Britain during the Civil War; historian Henry Adams;...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Distributed by Acorn Media 2008
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1 available in Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD ADACopies Available at Woodmere
1 available in British Television Series DVDs, Call number: DVD BRITISH TV ADABrookhiser, Richard.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Free Press 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 920 BROO'Brien, Michael
Summary: Early in 1815, Louisa Catherine Adams and her young son left St. Petersburg in a Russian carriage and set out to meet her husband, John Quincy Adams, in Paris. She traveled through the snows of eastern Europe, across the battlefields of Germany, and into a France then experiencing Napoleon's return from Elba. Along the way, she learned what Napoleon's wars had done to Europe, what her old...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2010
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 940.2 OBRKaplan, Fred
Summary: Explores how the differing experiences and viewpoints of two Presidents shaped slavery and race relations in America for more than a century.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Harper, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 2017
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.7 KAPMiller, William Lee.
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Publisher / Publication Date: A.A. Knopf 1996
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 973.5 MILAdams, Abigail
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 ADAHarness, Cheryl.
Summary: Presents the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as seen through the eyes of the boy who would grow up to be the sixth president of the United States.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Bradbury Press 1994
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1 available in Juvenile Nonfiction, Call number: J 921 ADAKaplan, Fred
Summary: A brilliant combination of literary analysis and historical detail, this masterfully written biography of the much misunderstood sixth president of the United States reveals the many sides of this forward-thinking man whose progressive vision helped shape the course of America.
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Publisher / Publication Date: HarperCollins 2014
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 921 ADAMS, JOHN QUINCY KAPSummary: The aim of these lectures is to make viewers feel welcome and comfortable in the company of paintings. By focusing on 65 masterpieces of Western painting, Professor William Kloss offers a vivid, visceral encounter with genius, shining light on the unique technical, stylistic, and expressive achievements of each painting. From the 14th century to the 20th, the images are examined for their...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Teaching Company 2010