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Adams John:     more books (98)

John Adams by David McCullough, 2008-01-29 State of the Union Address by John Quincy Adams, 2006-11-03 First Family: Abigail and John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis, 2010-10-26 My Dearest Friend: Letters of Abigail and John Adams by Abigail Adams, John Adams, 2010-11-15 The Letters of John and Abigail Adams by Abigail Adams, 2003-12-30 John Adams: A Life by John Ferling, 2010-02-09 Orations by John Quincy Adams, 2010-07-06 The Adams-Jefferson Letters: The Complete Correspondence Between Thomas Jefferson and Abigail and John Adams by John Adams, 1988-09-30 Passionate Sage: The Character and Legacy of John Adams by Joseph J. Ellis, 2001-02-17 John Quincy Adams (American Profiles (Madison House Paperback)) by Lynn Hudson Parsons, 1999-03-01 John Quincy Adams (The American Presidents Series) by Robert V. Remini, 2002-08-20 John Adams Speaks for Freedom (Ready-to-Read. Level 3) by Deborah Hopkinson, 2005-01-06 The John Adams Reader: Essential Writings on an American Composer (Amadeus) by Thomas May, 2006-06-19 A Force for Nature: The Story of NRDC and Its Fight to Save Our Planet by John H. Adams, Patricia Adams, 2010-08-25

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1. John Adams - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia
   John Adams was the oldest of three brothers, born on October 30, 1735 (October 19, 1735 by the Old Style, Julian calendar), in Braintree, Massachusetts,  
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   Extractions: Quincy Massachusetts Federalist Spouse Abigail Smith Adams Children Abigail Jr. (Nabby) John Quincy Adams , Susanna, Charles, Thomas and Elizabeth[stillborn] Alma mater Harvard College Occupation Lawyer Religion Unitarian Signature John Adams, Jr. October 30 July 4 ) was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). He also served as America's first Vice President (1789–1797). He was defeated for re-election in the " Revolution of 1800 " by Thomas Jefferson . Adams was also the first President to reside in the newly built White House in Washington, D.C. , which was completed in Adams, a sponsor of the American Revolution in Massachusetts , was a driving force for independence in 1776; Jefferson called him the "Colossus of Independence". He represented the Continental Congress in Europe. He was a major negotiator of the eventual

2. John Adams --  Britannica Online Encyclopedia
   Britannica online encyclopedia article on John Adams early advocate of American independence from Great Britain, major figure in the Continental Congress  
   http://www.britannica.com/eb/article-9003667/John-Adams
   
   Extractions: Table of Contents Introduction Early life Continental Congress Foreign service Political philosophy ... Retirement Additional Reading Adams's writings Biographies Special topics Print this Table of Contents Linked Articles Abigail Smith Abigail Adams Doubts About Independence John Quincy ... Boston Massacre Shopping

3. American Revolution: John Adams
   John Adams was born in 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. He became known as the Duke of Braintree because of where he was born. He graduated from Harvard.  
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   Extractions: John Adams was Samuel Adams' younger cousin, but they were very different. John Adams was 13 years younger than Samuel Adams. John Adams was born in 1735 in Braintree, Massachusetts. He became known as the Duke of Braintree because of where he was born. He graduated from Harvard. He taught school for a year but didn't like it. He studied law and became a lawyer. John Adams thought everyone should have a fair trial. He even defended the British soldiers, also known as the Redcoats. He was the lawyer who defended the British soldiers who were accused of murdering Crispus Attucks at the Boston Massacre On October 25, 1764 he married Abigail Smith. She tried to read as much as possible and tried to keep up with what was happening in the colonies. When John Adams was away, Abigail Adams and her husband wrote many letters to each other. In 1775, the Battle of Lexington and Concord made people angry, so some important colonists had a meeting in Philadelphia to discuss it. The meeting was called the

4. New Albion Artists: John Adams
   John Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947 and graduated from Harvard University in 1971. He moved to California where he taught and conducted  
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   Extractions: John Adams was born in Worcester, Massachusetts, in 1947 and graduated from Harvard University in 1971. He moved to California where he taught and conducted at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for ten years. His innovative concerts led to his appointment firstly as contemporary music advisor to the San Francisco Symphony, and then as the orchestra's composer-in-residence between 1979 and 1985, the period in which his reputation became established with the success of such works as "Harmonium" and "Harmonielehre". Recordings on the New Albion and ECM labels were followed by a contract with Nonesuch Records in 1986. Of John Adams' compositions, the best known and most widely discussed is his opera "Nixon in China", given its premiere by Houston Grand Opera in 1987 and winner of the 1989 Grammy for Best Contemporary Composition. With "Nixon in China", the composer, along with director Peter Sellars, librettist Alice Goodman and choreographer Mark Morris, brought contemporary history vividly into the opera house, pioneering an entire genre of post-modern music theater. The original staging of the work by Sellars has subsequently been seen in New York, Washington, Amsterdam, Edinburgh, Los Angeles, Paris, Adelaide and Frankfurt. New productions of the opera have been presented in Helsinki (in Finnish) and Beilefeld (in German). Adams' second opera, "The Death of Klinghoffer", again a collaboration with Sellars, Goodman and Morris, had its premiere at the Brussels Opera in 1991. Described by Newsweek critic Katrine Ames as "a work that fires the heart," it has also been seen in Lyon, Vienna, New York and San Francisco.

5. John Adams
   John Adams Signer of the Declaration of Independence 2nd President of the United States of America An 19th century biography of this signer of the  
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   Extractions: Citation: Website address (ie benjaminfranklin.org ), edited by Stanley L. Klos and volunteer editor's name, if any, listed at bottom - Carnegie, PA 1999-2006. We rely on volunteers to edit the sites on a continual basis. If you would like to edit this site please submit edits and  biographies in text form ADAMS, John, these turbulent Gallits," our numbers would in another century exceed those of the British, and all Europe would be unable to subdue us. In sending him to College his family seem to have hoped that he would become a clergyman; but he soon found himself too much of a free thinker to feel at home in the pulpit of that day. When accused of Arminiamsm, he cheerfully admitted the charge. Later in life he was sometimes called a Unitarian, but of dogmatic Christianity he seems to have had as little as Franklin or Jefferson. "Where do we find,"

6. John Adams
   John Adams was the second president of the United States, a distinguished lawyer and writer, a seasoned but largely unsuccessful diplomat and the founder of  
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   Extractions: John Adams was the second president of the United States, a distinguished lawyer and writer, a seasoned but largely unsuccessful diplomat and the founder of one of the most distinguished families in American history. Adams was born in Braintree (present day Quincy), Massachusetts , the son of a respected farmer. He graduated from Harvard College in 1755, and taught for a year before studying the law. He rose rapidly as a talented lawyer and began to make his mark politically during the Stamp Act Crisis , when he joined forces with his distant cousin Samuel Adams in resisting British taxation schemes. Adams was not a great orator, but his writings were noted for their unusual force and clarity. In 1770, he incurred the wrath of patriot forces by providing legal defense for the British soldiers who were charged with murder in the Boston Massacre . Adams was a delegate to both Continental Congresses and served on the drafting committee for the Declaration of Independence . It was Adams the Northerner who proposed that the Southerner George Washington be given command of the Continental Army In 1778, Adams began the first in a series of diplomatic missions, serving the

7. John Adams - EnchantedLearning.com
   John adams john Adams (1735 1826) was the second President of the United States of America. He was President from 1797 until 1801. His Vice-President was  
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   Extractions: John Adams Presidents of the USA President's Day Crafts John Adams (1735 - 1826) was the second President of the United States of America. He was President from 1797 until 1801. His Vice-President was Thomas Jefferson . Adams belonged to the Federalist Party. John Adams was born in Quincy, Massachusetts , on October 30, 1735. His father was a farmer. Adams graduated from Harvard University in 1755, and went on to become a lawyer in Boston. He married Abigail Smith in 1764, and they eventually had five children. Adams was a delegate to both the First and Second Continental Congresses, and helped draft the Declaration of Independence. After the Revolution, in 1783, Adams went to France to sign the Treaty of Paris, and became the first US ambassador to Great Britain from 1785 to 1788 (this was a very difficult position, since the British were not pleased with the outcome of the war).

8. Bunker Hill Exhibit | Biography | John Adams
   John Adams was born in the North Precinct of Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, on October 30, 1735, the eldest son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams  
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   Extractions: John Adams. Pastel by Benjamin Blyth, c. 1766 John Adams was born in the North Precinct of Braintree (now Quincy), Massachusetts, on October 30, 1735, the eldest son of John and Susanna (Boylston) Adams. After graduating from Harvard College in 1755, he studied and practiced law, and married Abigail Smith of Weymouth on October 25, 1764. Although already active in the Patriot cause, in 1770 Adams and Josiah Quincy, Jr., defended the British soldiers charged in the Boston Massacre Trials, successfully winning acquittals or reduced sentences for all the defendants. From 1774 to 1777 Adams served in the Continental Congress. He passionately urged independence for the colonies, and in 1776 he was appointed to the committee that would draft a declaration of independence. His copy of Thomas Jefferson's draft of the Declaration of Independence is the earliest known draft in existence.

9. Unitarian Universalist Biographical Dictionary
   John adams john Adams (October 30, 1735July 4, 1826), first vice-president and second president of the United States, was a leader of the American  
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   Extractions: John Adams (October 30, 1735-July 4, 1826), first vice-president and second president of the United States, was a leader of the American Revolution, diplomat, and political theorist who did much to shape, explain and defend the United States Constitution. John and Abigail Adams, in their old age were called "grandparents of their country." Adams was long overshadowed by Washington, Jefferson and Franklin. Scholars now recognize his vital role in the American Revolution and the creation of the new republic. John was the first of three children born to Susanna Boylston and Deacon John Adams, a Braintree, Massachusetts farmer and shoemaker. Before Adams was born, the Deacon and his wife Susanna decided their first-born son would attend college. Deacon Adams hoped his son would enter the ministry. John, faltering at a poorly run Latin school, told his father he would rather farm. When his father transferred him to Joseph Marsh's school, he improved, and at fifteen, passed Harvard's entrance examination. At Harvard, he came to love learning and excelled in scholarship. Adams had a life long relationship with First Parish, Braintree (now Quincy). He became a member on January 3, 1773. Late in life, he recalled that the church's minister, Lemuel Briant (1722-1754), was a Unitarian. Briant's theology was certainly Arminian, if not Unitarian, though he resisted the label. (Those called Arminians, after the 16th century Dutch theologian, Jacobus Arminius, upheld the role of free will in heeding the call to salvation.)

10. John Adams Quotes And Biography. John Adams Quotations.
    Read John Adams quotes, biography or a speech. QuoteDB offers a large collection of John Adams quotations, ratings and a picture.  
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11. John Adams
    John Adams accomplished a lot. He served in the Continental Congress. He nominated* George Washington to become commanderin-chief of the Army.  
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    Extractions: His father taught him to read when he was very young, then he attended school and entered Harvard on a scholarship when he was fifteen years old and graduated when he was twenty. Harvard at that time consisted of four buildings and a faculty of twelve. While he was in college he began to keep a diary. It was very small, about the size of your hand. His handwriting was so tiny you would need a magnifying glass to read the words. After graduation he became a schoolmaster. Sometimes he would select a bright student to teach the class, and he would sit back and read or write. He soon tired of teaching and decided to start studying to become a lawyer. John suffered from ill health and at one point moved from Boston back to Braintree (Quincy), Masssachusetts, his birthplace. He then began to commute

12. John Quincy Adams
    John Quincy Adams s tenure as James Monroe s secretary of state ranks among the most productive in the history of that office.  
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    Extractions: John Quincy Adams's tenure as James Monroe's secretary of state ranks among the most productive in the history of that office. But his often abrupt and tactless ways were ill-suited for the presidency, and when his nationalistic vision for federally sponsored development of America's potentials met with hostility in Congress, he was incapable of promoting accommodation. As a result, the accomplishments of his administration were meager indeed. At the end of his presidency, Adams declared, "the sun of my political life sets in deepest gloom." In fact, his sun was not even close to setting. Elected to the House of Representatives in 1830, he served there until his death. By then, he had been dubbed "Old Man Eloquent," and in his prolonged and successful struggle defending the antislavery movement's right to petition Congress, he had gained a circle of admirers that extended well beyond his Massachusetts constituency. When Adams sat for this portrait, he doubted that artist George Caleb Bingham could produce "a strong likeness." But Bingham did just that, and the portrait's sharp-edged vitality seems to echo Ralph Waldo Emerson's comment that the aging Adams was "like one of those old cardinals, who as quick as he is chosen Pope, throws away his crutches and his crookedness, and is as straight as a boy."

13. John Adams
    John Adams relationship to databases has variously been that of peasant to tsar, meteroid to star, and finally tick to hound.  
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    Extractions: John Adams John Adams' relationship to databases has variously been that of peasant to tsar, meteroid to star, and finally tick to hound. His interest began in his early teens, when he wondered how all those lists which 'they' were keeping on which, he was reliably told, his name was found, could possibly be maintained, let alone kept consistent. John Adams "was utterly hopeless as a grand designer of narratives, and he knew it. The artifice required to shape a major work of history or philosophy was not in him. But he was a natural contrarian, a born critic, whose fullest energies manifested themselves in the act of doing intellectual isometric exercises against the fixed objects presented by someone else's ideas." At least that's how Joseph Ellis tells it in "Founding Brothers." Opening Up E-Voting Publish Date: Apr. 26, 2004 The politics of e-voting may be controversial, but the technologies used are not exceptionally complicated or difficult to understand. Now, two initiatives have opened e-voting systems to public examination and varying degrees of tranparency and verification. View all articles by John Adams Oracle and MySQL are a perfect match Tuesday February 28, 2006 11:14AM

14. John Adams - Wikiquote
    Offers a collection of quotes attributed to President John Adams.  
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    Extractions: Jump to: navigation search There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free government ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty. John Adams 30 October 4 July ) was the first (1789–1797) Vice President of the United States, and the second (1797–1801) President of the United States; husband of Abigail Adams , father of John Quincy Adams Metaphysicians and politicians may dispute forever, but they will never find any other moral principle or foundation of rule or obedience, than the consent of governors and governed. Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passion, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence.

15. John Adams
    John was the first son of John Adams and Susanna Boylston of Braintree, Mass. He enjoyed growing up on his father s farm, was educated for college,  
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    Extractions: The United States These two stamps were issued in the 1938 Presidential Series. United First Parish Church, Quincy, Mass. The two presidents with their respective wives are buried in a crypt below the entrance vestibule. This section of the church is a national shrine, open to the public and maintained by appropriations of the Congress. His law practice was successful, and it led to his being elected to serve in the Massachusetts House of Representatives. This began his career in government, which continued through all his life. He served in the Continental Congress, the Second Continental Congress, and was on the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence. The Declaration, written primarily by Jefferson, was read to the Congress by John Adams, who spoke with earnestness and patriotism, with strong and able arguments for rights and liberty with these stirring words: "When in the course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve, etc." Many members of Congress were opposed to this paper, and there were strong debates on both sides; but Jefferson said, "Adams was the ablest advocate and champion of independence on the floor of the house. He was the Colossus of that Congress. He came out with a power which moved his hearers from their seats."

16. America's Chrisitan Rulers: John Quincy Adams
    John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States. On March 4th 1825,  
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    Extractions: Jay Rogers John Quincy Adams was born in Braintree, now Quincy, Massachusetts, the son of John Adams, the second President of the United States. On March 4th 1825, he was inaugurated as President and served one term. His inaugural address closed with these words: "Knowing that 'except the Lord keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain,' with fervent supplications for His favor, to His overruling providence I commit, with humble, but fearless confidence, my own fate, and the future destinies of my country." Known as a great orator, he was a popular speaker in many places. He owed his influence, not to his manner, presence or pleasing tones, but to the fact that what he said was worth hearing. When it was feared that Christian influence was waning in New England, he prepared a lecture on Truth, which he delivered in many places. The premise was: "A man to be a Christian must believe in God, in the Bible, in the Divinity of the Savior's mission, and in a future state of rewards and punishments." Adams wrote a series of letters to his son on "The Bible and its Teachings" which were published in the New York Tribune, in which he stated: "I have myself for many years made it a practice to read through the Bible once every year. I have always endeavored to read it with the same spirit and temper of mind which I now recommend to you; that is, with the intention and desire that it contribute to my advancement in wisdom and virtue ... My custom is, to read four or five chapters every morning, immediately after rising form my bed. It employs about an hour of my time, and seems to me the most suitable manner of beginning the day."

17. John Adams
    John Adams home page at www.boosey.com. Discover his music, listen to soundclips, read a composer biography. Explore information, news, performances and  
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    Extractions: You are here: Home Composers Composer Index Composer Quick Links Aa, Michel van der Adams, John Andriessen, Louis Argento, Dominick Bach, Johann Sebastian Bart³k, B©la Beethoven, Ludwig van Benoit, David Bernstein, Leonard Birtwistle, Harrison Bizet, Georges Brahms, Johannes Britten, Benjamin Bruch, Max Bruckner, Anton Carter, Elliott Cherubini, Luigi Chin, Unsuk Chopin, Frederic Copland, Aaron Corea, Chick Daugherty, Michael Dean, Brett Debussy, Claude Del Tredici, David Delius, Frederick Dvor¡k, Antonin Einem, Gottfried von Elgar, Edward Finzi, Gerald Floyd, Carlisle Gerhard, Roberto Gershwin, George Ginastera, Alberto Glanert, Detlev Goldschmidt, Berthold G³recki, Henryk Mikolaj Gruber, HK H¤ndel, Georg Friedrich Haydn, Franz Joseph Hill, Andrew H¶ller, York Holloway, Robin Holst, Gustav Horne, David Huws Jones, Edward Jenkins, Karl Kalitzke, Johannes Kats-Chernin, Elena Kernis, Aaron Jay Kodaly, Zoltan Lees, Benjamin Lindberg, Magnus Liszt, Franz Mackey, Steven MacMillan, James Mahler, Gustav Markevitch, Igor Marsalis, Wynton

18. John Adams
    John Adams, born in Braintree, Mass., 19 October 1735, graduated from Harvard in 1755. He studied law while teaching school for the next 3 years and was  
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    Extractions: John Adams John Adams, born in Braintree, Mass., 19 October 1735, graduated from Harvard in 1755. He studied law while teaching school for the next 3 years and was admitted to the bar in 1758. His opposition to the Stamp Act in 1765 established Adams as a political leader. After moving to Boston he served in the Massachusetts House of Repre sentatives and later in the Provincial Congress. In 1774 Adams was selected as one of the delegates from Massachusetts to the first Continental Congress where he became a champion of American rights and liberties and later a leader in the independence movement. He sec onded Richard Henry Lee's motion for a resolution of independence 7 June 1776, and he served on the committee which drafted the Declaration of Independence which was adopted 4 July. On 5 October 1775, Congress created the first of a series of committees to study naval matters. From that time

19. Biography Of John Adams
    Biography of john adams, the second President of the United States (17971801).  
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    Extractions: John Adams Learned and thoughtful, John Adams was more remarkable as a political philosopher than as a politician. "People and nations are forged in the fires of adversity," he said, doubtless thinking of his own as well as the American experience. Adams was born in the Massachusetts Bay Colony in 1735. A Harvard-educated lawyer, he early became identified with the patriot cause; a delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses, he led in the movement for independence. During the Revolutionary War he served in France and Holland in diplomatic roles, and helped negotiate the treaty of peace. From 1785 to 1788 he was minister to the Court of St. James's, returning to be elected Vice President under George Washington. Lynne Cheney Biography Adams' two terms as Vice President were frustrating experiences for a man of his vigor, intellect, and vanity. He complained to his wife Abigail, "My country has in its wisdom contrived for me the most insignificant office that ever the invention of man contrived or his imagination conceived."

20. John Adams | Official Web Site
    Official site. Biography, list of works with program notes, photographs, interviews, articles, essays, upcoming performances, links, news, and discography.  
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