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CHARLES FRANCIS ADAMS

By: Charles Francis 1835-1915 Adams

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1361547014

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9781361547014

Diary of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

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Diary of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

A man's twenty-seventh year is "critical," according to Charles Francis Adams. And so his proved to be. Twenty-five at the start of these volumes, Adams had yet to embark on the public career that would mark him a statesman, but by their conclusion he had been drawn into the maelstrom of politics. It was an unwilling plunge, dictated by what both he and his father, John Quincy Adams, regarded as betrayal of the elder Adams by Daniel Webster and his Whigs. Once in, however, he showed himself politically adept. This diary, kept from January 1833 to June 1836 and hitherto unpublished, has elements of hidden personal drama. Through private meetings and caucuses and newspaper articles signed with pseudonyms, the younger Adams found effective means to carry on political activities in the face of dilemmas posed by his father's public prominence, his father-in-law's contrary persuasions, and his own preferences. He emerged with growing self-respect and solid accomplishment as political journalist--his initial vocation. The diary has fresh disclosures also about the personality of John Quincy Adams, shrewdly assessed by an observer uniquely placed to interpret domestic scenes as well as the greatly waged struggles in Washington against the Southern "slaveocracy" and "gag rules." Colorful figures in Boston's political and social life are finely etched in outspoken appraisals characteristic of the Adamses. The diarist shows acuteness too in comments on books, sermons, paintings, the theater, and opera.

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0674204026

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9780674204027

Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

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Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

By: Charles Francis Adams

In the single hour self-allotted for my part in this occasion there is much ground to cover,--the time is short, and I have far to go. Did I now, therefore, submit all I had proposed to say when I accepted your invitation, there would remain no space for preliminaries. Yet something of that character is in place. I will try to make it brief. As the legend or text of what I have in mind to submit, I have given the words "'Tis Sixty Years Since." As some here doubtless recall, this is the second or subordinate title of Walter Scott's first novel, "Waverley," which brought him fame. Given to the world in 1814,--hard on a century ago,--"Waverley" told of the last Stuart effort to recover the crown of Great Britain,--that of "The '45." It so chances that Scott's period of retrospect is also just now most appropriate in my case, inasmuch as I entered Harvard as a student in the year 1853--"sixty years since!" It may fairly be asserted that school life ends, and what may in contradistinction thereto be termed thinking and acting life begins, the day the young man passes the threshold of the institution of more advanced education. For him, life's responsibilities then begin. Prior to that confused, thenceforth things with him become consecutive,--a sequence. Insensibly he puts away childish things.

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Library of Alexandria

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1465503692

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Address of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; and Proceedings at the Dedication of the Crane Memorial Hall, at Quincy, Mass., May 30, 1882

By: Charles Francis Adams

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Address of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; and Proceedings at the Dedication of the Crane Memorial Hall, at Quincy, Mass., May 30, 1882

By: Charles Francis Adams

Reprint of the original, first published in 1883.

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3385359562

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ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADA

By: Charles Francis 1807-1886 Adams

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By: Charles Francis 1807-1886 Adams

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Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography

By: Adams Charles Francis

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By: Adams Charles Francis

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'tis Sixty Years Since

By: Charles Francis Adams II

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By: Charles Francis Adams II

Charles Francis Adams II was born May 27, 1835, the son of Charles Francis Adams (1807-86), and through him the grandson of President John Quincy Adams (1767-1848) and the great-grandson of President John Adams (1735-1826). After graduating from Harvard University in 1856 (the same school his father, grandfather, and great-grandfather graduated from), he served during the US Civil War. Initially a captain in a Massachusetts cavalry regiment, he saw combat in several battles, and retired as a brevet brigadier general. After the war, he served on the Massachusetts Railroad Commission, and then was president of the Union Pacific Railroad from 1884 to 1890. From 1893 to 1895, he was chairman of the Massachusetts Park Commission. As a railroad executive, he attempted to expose corrupt business practices, in the hope that businessmen would be shamed into mending their ways. But he also held true to a regulatory philosophy, viewing regulation as necessary to protect investors and businessmen. Adams was also a historian, and became president of the Massachusetts Historical Society in 1895 and the American Historical Association in 1901. He wrote extensively on the problems of railway management, his business philosophies, and on other historical subjects. In January 1913, at the Founders' Day Celebration at Harvard University, he gave this address, looking back on the sixty years since he'd first entered Harvard as a student. Charles Francis Adams II died a week before his 80th birthday, on May 20, 1915.

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Diary of Charles Francis Adams

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Tis Sixty Years Since: Address of Charles Francis Adams

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Address of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; and Proceedings at the Dedication of the Crane Memorial Hall, at Quincy, Mass., May 30, 1882

Address of Charles Francis Adams, Jr.; and Proceedings at the Dedication of the Crane Memorial Hall, at Quincy, Mass., May 30, 1882

ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADA

ADDRESS OF CHARLES FRANCIS ADA

Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography

Charles Francis Adams, 1835-1915: An Autobiography

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