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The Education of John Adams (Paperback)
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The Education of John Adams (Paperback)
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Loot Price R586
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The Education of John Adams is the first biography of John Adams by
a biographer with legal training. It examines his origins in
colonial Massachusetts, his education, and his struggle to choose a
career and define a place for himself in colonial society. It
explores the flowering of his legal career and the impact that law
had on him and his understanding of himself; his growing
involvement with the American Revolution as polemicist, as lawyer,
as congressional delegate, and as diplomat; and his commitment to
defining and expounding ideas about constitutionalism and how it
should work as the body of ideas shaping the new United States. The
book traces his part in launching the government of the United
States under the U.S. Constitution; his service as the nation's
first vice president and second president; and his retirement
years, during which he was first a vexed and rejected ex-president
and then became the revered Sage of Braintree. It describes the
relationships that sustained him - with his wife, the brilliant and
eloquent Abigail Adams; with his children; with such allies and
supporters as Benjamin Rush and John Marshall; with such sometime
friends and sometime adversaries as Benjamin Franklin, George
Washington, and Thomas Jefferson; and with such foes as Alexander
Hamilton and Timothy Pickering. Bernstein establishes Adams as a
key figure in the evolution of American constitutional theory and
practice. This is the first biography to examine Adams's conflicted
and hesitant ideas about slavery and race in the American context,
raising serious questions about his mythic status as a friend of
human equality and a foe of slavery. This book's foundation is the
record left by Adams himself-in diaries, letters, essays,
pamphlets, and books. The Education of John Adams concludes by
re-examining the often-debated question of the relevance of Adams's
thought to our own time.
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