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John Adams: Revolutionary Writings, 1755-1775 (Library of America, No. 213) Hardcover – March 31, 2011

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Gordon S. Wood present the first comprehensive selection of John Adams’s vitally important writing for the general reader, three fully-annotated volumes charting his entire extraordinary career.

Propelled by the power of his pen and the clarity of his judgment, an ambitious young provincial lawyer named John Adams became a major figure in the American Revolution and the new constitutional republic it gave birth to. This first of three volumes gathering his essential writings in cludes the complete newspaper exchange between “Novanglus” (Adams) and “Massachusettensis” (Loyalist Daniel Leonard), as well as extensive diary excerpts and characteristically frank personal letters—many to his “dearest friend” Abigail—that convey the excitement and danger of the mounting crisis with Britain, from the Stamp Act riots of 1765, to the Boston Massacre and Tea Party, to the First Continental Congress, where Adams became a leader of the patriot cause. Two companion Library of America volumes chart the remainder of Adams’s life and career; a third presents the letters of Abigail Adams.

LIBRARY OF AMERICA is an independent nonprofit cultural organization founded in 1979 to preserve our nation’s literary heritage by publishing, and keeping permanently in print, America’s best and most significant writing. The Library of America series includes more than 300 volumes to date, authoritative editions that average 1,000 pages in length, feature cloth covers, sewn bindings, and ribbon markers, and are printed on premium acid-free paper that will last for centuries.

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American history as shaped and experienced by four generations of one extraordinary family	A young provincial lawyer becomes a leader in the American Revolution in this volume of letters, memoirs & political writings, including the complete newspaper exchange between "Novanglus" (Adams) and "Massachusettensis" (Loyalist Daniel Leonard.)	Including the highly influential pamphlet "Thoughts on Government," extensive diary excerpts, selected passages from his unfinished autobiography, and dozens of his characteristically frank and revealing personal letters, many to his wife Abigail	Gordon Wood caps his 3-volume edition of John Adams’s writings with this gathering of letters, diary excerpts, political essays, and presidential messages, revealing the passionate and mercurial personality of one of our most fascinating Founders.	NEW! 21 essential works trace a great statesman’s lifelong engagement with the promise of America and the legacy of the Founding Fathers.	The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. This is the first of two volumes of selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring passages suppressed in earlier editions.	Volume 2 of John Quincy Adams's diaries follows him from his service as Secretary of State, through his embittered presidency, and into the most remarkable second act in American political history, as a Congressman from Massachusetts.

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The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling some fifteen thousand closely-written manuscript pages, it is both an unrivaled record of historical events and personalities from the nation's founding to the antebellum era and a masterpiece of American self-portraiture, tracing the spiritual, literary, and scientific interests of an exceptionally lively mind. Library of America and historian David Waldstreicher present a two-volume reader's edition of diary selections based for the first time on the original manuscripts, restoring personal and revealing passages suppressed in earlier editions.

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John Adams (1735-1826), educated as a lawyer at Harvard, was the Massachusetts delegate to the First and Second Continental Congresses. During the Revolutionary War, he served abroad in diplomatic roles and helped negotiate the peace treaty. After serving as Vice President for two terms under George Washington, he was subsequently elected President.

Gordon S. Wood is Alva O. Way Professor of History Emeritus at Brown University and the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He has also edited the two-volume Library of America edition The American Revolution: Writings from the Pamphlet Debate 1764–1776.

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Publisher ‏ : ‎ Library of America; First Edition (March 31, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 750 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1598530895
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1598530896
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.45 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.21 x 1.26 x 8.17 inches

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John Adams was a Founding Father, the first vice president of the United States and the second president. His letters to family, friends, and fellow Founding Fathers are collected in various volumes.

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These Library of America Series of Books are Fantastic!
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I first stumbled onto the Library of American Series back in the 90's with the 2 volume collection on the "Debate of the Constitution." I have a great fascination with our founding and a great respect of the Constitution as most true conservatives do. We must do everything we can to protect the original intent of the founders and why our natural rights were protected in written form and concisely. It is preferred to get as close to history and the original source as possible without being told what to think by presenting only what an author wants you know. The books available from Libary of America have given me just that. They do still have editors. To what degree of editing is done I hope is minimal. These are actual writings of the founders themselves. It is only by reading the original writings can you make a good assessment on history.

These have proven to be used more as resources than just sitting down to read every page. Which has been an intent but there are two many volumes of interest and most of the books have over 1000 pages. I usually bounce around researching specific topics of interest at any given time.

The books all match no matter which topic you choose so they fit nicely on the book shelf. The come in boxed sets for specific volumes or those volumes can be purchased individually. The boxes are very well made and don't look out of place when sitting next to unboxed LOA books. Each comes with a dust jacket all similarly designed. The binding and covers of the books themselves also have a classy style that are reminiscent of books of the past when displaying them on shelves. I recommend this publisher for books on the founding or any subject they publish. Other topics range from Civil War, WWII, Poetry and more. I am careful about some books that are published since not all are the original writings. If that's important to you, research them well before diving into a purchase. I tend to look up the "authors" of those published types and their backgrounds before trusting this source for historical accounts. Overall they are nice books with an acceptable price.

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A Great Way to Get to Know John Adams!
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I wrote my doctoral dissertation on the political thought of John Adams many moons ago and possess all of his writings in their unabridged form, but wanted just what this three-volume set provides — a chronological integration of correspondence, essays, and major works intelligently edited to provide a good picture of the range and nature of Adams as a scholar and student of ancient, medieval, and modern political thought and practice. The three volumes together form a generally accurate, if not entirely complete, picture of Adams, the thinker, which may stand as a valuable resource for the appreciation of his many contributions to the independence movement, the Revolution, and to the shaping of the debate over the principles of the Constitution of 1787. Readers will be rewarded by the discovery of a founder whose intellect has been largely buried by his biographers who have emphasized his public and private life to accord with Jefferson's friend-and- foe quips about Adams's affable as well as his irascible character. It is long since time that those interested in the founding pantheon are given the means to appreciate John Adams, the political philosopher and wise student of human nature. Gordon Wood and The Library of America has made that unknown John Adams widely accessible.

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John Adams in his own Words
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David McCollough's best-selling biography made John Adams (1735 -- 1826) a revered figure to many Americans. With the Library of America's publication of two volumes of Adams' "Revolutionary Writings", readers will have the opportunity to get to know Adams through his own words and thought. Gordon Wood, the distinguished Pulitzer-Prize winning historian of early America and Professor Emeritus at Brown University has prepared and selected the texts, provided a detailed chronology of Adams' life, and added brief explanatory notes to the selections.

The first volume in the set, which I will discuss in this review, covers the years 1755, when Adams was a student at the age of 20, through 1775, while Adams was serving in the Continental Congress. The second volume John Adams: Revolutionary Writings 1775-1783 (Library of America, No. 214) continues with Adams' service in the Continental Congress and concludes in 1783 with the negotiation of the treaty of peace with Great Britain and the winning of American independence. There is a great deal to be digested in these volumes, but there is much more to learn about Adams that is outside their scope. The volumes do not cover the Constitutional period, Adams' vice-presidency and presidency, his long, productive period of retirement, and many of his lengthy later works of political philosophy. For all the virtues of this collection, much of Adams remains to be discovered. The letters Adams exchanged late in life with Thomas Jefferson, for example, are ripe with wisdom and are important in understanding early America and the long, eventful relationship between these two Founders.

In reading these two volumes, the persistent reader can hear Adams' own words and consider his achievements and thought. This opening book consists of 72 letters together with diary entries, newspaper articles, essays, and public messages. The volume is in three broad sections, the first of which is titled "Lawyer and Patriot" and covers the years 1755 -- 1774. The second section is titled "The Continental Congress" and covers extensively the years 1774 -- 1775. The third section includes selections from Adam's unfinished autobiography, written in 1802, which track the events covered in the text.

In his letters, Adams revealed a great deal of himself, including his frequently conflicting traits of ambition, vanity, honesty, and commitment to public service and to making something useful of his life. Thus, in the early selections of the book, the reader gets to know Adams as a young man struggling with his career choices as he determines to become a lawyer, with his religious faith, and with his ambition. The volume also touches upon his courtship of Abigail Smith, whom Adams married in 1764. Abigail and her frequently absent husband exchanged many revealing letters, as she became his famous helpmeet and confidant.

The book covers an eventful period in pre-revolutionary America and Massachusetts as Adams, a diligent, eloquent, and successful young lawyer, rose to a position of prominence. After the French-Indian war, Britain began to tax the American colonies beginning with the Stamp Act of 1764. This tax, and subsequent actions would lead to the rupture with Britain and ultimately to independence. From the beginning, this volume shows, Adams was active in the Revolutionary movement and in protecting the colonies against what he perceived as tyranny from Great Britain. Msny of Adams' essays and newspaper articles supportive of the early revolutionary cause are included here. They begin with the early, tounge-in-cheek essays under the name of "Humphrey Ploughjobber" and progress to a still important work, Adams' "Dissertaion on the Canon and the Feudal Law" of 1765, which sets forth Adams' understanding of the British constitution and of the abuses Britain was perpetuating in the colonies. The volume also includes a lengthy series of essays in which Adams explains his understanding of judical independence and how he believed it was threatened by continuing acts of Parliament.

The longest section of this volume consists of essays Adams published in 1775 under the name of "Novanglus". The Novanglus essays were replies to essays written by one Daniel Leonard under the name of "Massachusettensis". Adams knew Leonard, but at the time of the exchange he did not know that Leonard had written these essays. The Massachusettnis and the Novanglus essays are included in their entirety. In 1819, Adams himself collected and published them in a book The subject of the exchanges is, broadly, the political and legal relationship between Britain and the colonies and about whether the colonies were justified in attempting to declare their independence. At one time, Leonard had sympathized with independence, but he wrote in "Massachusettensis" as a strong Loyalist. He argued that Britain had the legal and moral right to legislate for the colonies and that Britain's governance of the colonies had been, on the whole, mild and beneficient. He criticized Adams and his fellow revolutionists as incendiaries and feared that they would bring disaster to themselves and to the colonists. Adams, for his part, in long tortorous and difficult essays largely denied Britains' right to legislate for the colonies and denied its power to tax because the colonies had no representation in Parliament. Adams was critical of Britain's governance and argued that a cabal had been formed in the colonies and in Britain to reduce the colonies to subjection and to establish tyranny. The learning and arguments of both Massachuettensis and Novanglus are prodigious. To my reading, Adams does not always get the better of the argument. These essays are difficult and wordy, but they capture much of what was at issue between Britain and her colonies. They also show the role of Adams in the struggle.

Adams' thought shows revolutionary fervor and a commitment to representative government. It also exhibits a deep skepticism about human nature and a fear that the different economic groups in society would tend towards tyranny or anarchy unless they were made part of a mixed government with strong checks and balances among the potential factions. The tensions in Adams' political thinking make it both difficult and rewarding. It resists easy categorization. I conclude this review by quoting from the last paragraph of a "Draft of an Essay on Power" which Adams wrote in 1763. In 1807, Adams returned to this product of his youth to declare that "this last paragraph has been the Creed of my whole Life and is now March 27, 1807 as much approved as it was when it was written by John Adams." Adams wrote, in his 1763 draft essay as follows.(p. 90)

" No simple Form of government, can possibly secure Men against the Violences of Power. Simple Monarchy will soon mould itself into Despotism, Aristocracy will soon commence an Oligarchy, and Democracy, will soon degenerate into an Anarchy, such an Anarchy that every Man will do what is right in his own Eyes, and no Mans life or Property or Reputation or Liberty will be secure and every one of these will soon mould itself into a system of subordination of all the moral Virtues, and Intellectual abilities, all the Powers of Wealth, Beauty, Wit and Science, to the wanton Pleasures, the capricious Will, and the execrable Cruelty of one or a very few".

This selection of Adams' early writings makes for serious, sustained reading and thought. A good background in American history will be beneficial in reading this book. The Library of America and Wood deserve gratitude for making this volume and its companion volume of Adams' Revolutionary Writings accessible to lay readers. The book will reward readers interested in the Founders and in American history and political thought.

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This book is in excellent condition and helps complete my entire set
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The Library of America puts out the original writings of the American founding fathers and other important figures of our country. It is one of the most valuable set of books. This book is in excellent condition and helps complete my entire set. Thank you.

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