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John Adams John Adams A LIFE John Ferling Copyright © 1992 by The University of Tennessee Press / Knoxville. All Rights Reserved. Manufactured in the United States of America. First Edition. Frontispiece: John Adams in 1783, aged forty-eight. Oil on canvas by John Singleton Copley. Courtesy: Harvard University Portrait Collection. Bequest of Ward Nicholas Boylston, 1828. The paper in this book meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials. The binding materials have been chosen for strength and durability. Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data Ferling, John E. John Adams : a life / John Ferling. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 0-87049-730-8 (cloth : alk. paper) 1. Adams, John, 1735-1826. 2. Presidents—United States— Biography. I. Title. F322.F47 1992 973.4’4’092—dc20 [B] 91-14036 cip Contents Preface Introduction PART ONE Love of Fame 1 Vanity Is My Cardinal Vice 2 Shall I Creep or Fly? 3 To Thine Own Self Be True 4 The Scene of Action PART TWO An Epocha in History 5 Tea That Bainfull Weed 6 Until Our Rights Are Fully Restored 7 We Shall Do Something in Time 8 Oh That I Was a Soldier! 9 A Total Absolute Independence 10 To Leave This Station with Honour PART THREE Safe and Glorious in the Harbour of Peace 11 A Man of No Consequence 12 My Business Is Peace 13 Thus Drops the Curtain 14 High against America PART FOUR One Man of Inflexible Integrity 15 Much to Be Grateful For 16 An Office of Hard Labor and Severe Duty 17 War Is Inexpedient 18 Thunderstruck 19 The Seeds of Discontent and Division PART FIVE I Still Live and Enjoy Life 20 A Retired Hermetical Life 21 A Heavy Burden to Carry Afterword Abbreviations Notes Select Bibliography Index Illustrations John Adams in 1783 John Adams’s Birthplace and Residence John Adams in 1766 Abigail Adams in 1766 Preliminary Peace Negotiations The Adams Residence in France John Adams in 1785 Abigail Adams in 1785 Abigail Adams Smith in 1785 Peacefield, or The Old House John Adams in 1793 John Adams by Charles Willson Peale John Quincy Adams in 1796 Thomas Boylston Adams, c. 1795 Charles Adams, c. 1797 The Executive Mansion in Philadelphia John Adams by Gilbert Stuart, c. 1801 Abigail Adams in 1800 John Adams in 1823 Bust of John Adams, 1825
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