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The Education of John Adams (Hardcover)
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The Education of John Adams (Hardcover)
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The Education of John Adams is a concise biography of John Adams
(1735-1826), the first 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 his flourishing legal career and the
impact that law had on him and his perception of himself; his
growing involvement with the emerging American Revolution as
polemicist, as lawyer, as congressional delegate, and as diplomat;
and his role in defining and expounding ideas about
constitutionalism and how it should work as the governing ideology
of the new United States. The book traces his part in launching the
new 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 passed from
being a vexed and rejected ex-president to the 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; such
sometime friends and sometime adversaries as Benjamin Franklin,
George Washington, and Thomas Jefferson; and with such foes as
Alexander Hamilton and Timothy Pickering. It establishes Adams as a
key but neglected figure in the evolution of American
constitutional theory and practice. It also 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.
The focus of this book 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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