John Quincy Adams : the critical years, 1785-1794

The Resource John Quincy Adams : the critical years, 1785-1794

Label

John Quincy Adams : the critical years, 1785-1794

Title remainder

the critical years, 1785-1794

Statement of responsibility

by Robert A. East

Language

eng

Summary

"When John Quincy Adams spoke of a 'critical period' in his commencement address at Harvard College in July 1787, he justified later historians in their use of the phrase. The young graduate said that the problems facing America in this critical period demanded public faith, and he argued that a country's greatness is related to the maintenance of its credit. That young Adams was undergoing a critical period of his own in these years may be seen in his private history. It is a story of trial and error and controversy in the life of a young man on his way to greatness. Only a few months after making his nationalistic commencement address he became opposed to the federal plan for national reform itself. (When reminded of this long afterwards, he was to label it a lesson in humiliation.) Several years later his controversial newspaper writings on the 'rights of man' were to help precipitate political factions on a nation-wide scale. Other of his early writings supported a distinctively American viewpoint on the turbulent subject of foreign affairs"--Preface, page 7

Cataloging source

VT2

Dewey number

973.5/5/092
B

Index

no index present

LC call number

E377

LC item number

.E2 1962

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

dictionaries

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