Charles Francis Adams - Böcker

In these volumes the second decade of the sixty-year diary of Charles Francis Adams, the third of the familys statesmen, is begun. As was true of the two earlier volumes of the Diary, the section appearing here has not before reached print. Coveri...

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A mans 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 h...

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The period of June 1836 to February 1840, from Charles Francis Adamss twenty-eighth to thirty-second year, was characterized by his turn from the political activities that had occupied him for the preceding several years. The course of the Van Bur...

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Chapters of Erie is a classic account of ruthless business practices in nineteenth-century America-in particular, Jay Gould and James Fisk's successful effort to gain control of the Erie Railroad in 1868 and subsequent attempt to corner the Americ...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United...

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