Portraits of John and Abigail Adams
Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: Cambridge, Mass. : Belknap Press of Harvard University Press
Published: 1967
Total Pages: 368
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Andrew OLIVER (First Vice-President of the New York Historical Society.)
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Published: 1967
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: David A. Adler
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Published: 2010
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9780823420070
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →A simple, illustrated biography of one of America's most famous couples.
Author: Edith Gelles
Publisher: Harper Collins
Published: 2009-04-14
Total Pages: 357
ISBN-13: 0061353876
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Gelles offers an intimate look at the Revolutionary era's most influential marriage and America's first power couple, Abigail and John Adams. 12 b&w photos.
Author: Andrew Oliver
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 1970
Total Pages: 392
ISBN-13: 9780674691520
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →This volume affords a visual documentation of the most varied political career in American history and exemplifies the work of the principal American portraitists from the days of Copley and Stuart to the dawn of the Daguerrean era. Included in the 159 illustrations are all the known life portraits, busts, and silhouettes of John Quincy and Louisa Catherine Adams, along with important replicas, copies, engravings, and representative likenesses of their siblings. The book is organized into seven chapters which generally coincide with the major divisions of John Quincy Adams' political career. Within each chapter are discussed the artists, their relationships with the Adams's, and the provenance of each of their works. A chronology of John Quincy Adams' life for each period accompanies the chapter to which it pertains. Information about the size of each likeness, the inscriptions if any, the date executed, and present ownership where known is summarized in the List of Illustrations. The Adams's, as they watched themselves age over the years in the marble, ink, or oil of the artists who portrayed them, recorded much by way of commentary on the artistic talent and process at hand. The author makes use of the diaries and correspondence preserved in the Adams Papers, thus combining a learned appreciation with an intimate glimpse of Adams's as they saw themselves.
Author: Joseph J. Ellis
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2011-09-06
Total Pages: 322
ISBN-13: 0307389995
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →In this rich and engrossing account, John and Abigail Adams come to life against the backdrop of the Republic’s tenuous early years. Drawing on over 1,200 letters exchanged between the couple, Ellis tells a story both personal and panoramic. We learn about the many years Abigail and John spent apart as John’s political career sent him first to Philadelphia, then to Paris and Amsterdam; their relationship with their children; and Abigail’s role as John’s closest and most valued advisor. Exquisitely researched and beautifully written, First Family is both a revealing portrait of a marriage and a unique study of America’s early years.
Author: Jeanne E. Abrams
Publisher: NYU Press
Published: 2021-02-02
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 1479802875
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reveals how the European travels of John and Abigail Adams helped define what it meant to be an American From 1778 to 1788, the Founding Father and later President John Adams lived in Europe as a diplomat. Joined by his wife, Abigail, in 1784, the two shared rich encounters with famous heads of the European royal courts, including the ill-fated King Louis XVI and Queen Marie-Antoinette, and the staid British Monarchs King George III and Queen Charlotte. In this engaging narrative, A View from Abroad takes us on the first full exploration of the Adams’s lives abroad. Jeanne E. Abrams reveals how the journeys of John and Abigail Adams not only changed the course of their intellectual, political, and cultural development—transforming the couple from provincials to sophisticated world travelers—but most importantly served to strengthen their loyalty to America. Abrams shines a new light on how the Adamses and their American contemporaries set about supplanting their British origins with a new American identity. They and their fellow Americans grappled with how to reorder their society as the new nation took its place in the international transatlantic world. After just a short time abroad, Abigail maintained that, “My Heart and Soul is more American than ever. We are a family by ourselves.” The Adamses’ quest to define what it means to be an American, and the answers they discovered in their time abroad, still resonate with us to this day.