John Adams
Subtitle: the Statesman of the American Revolution; with other essays and addresses, historical and literary.
Publisher: Houghton
Published: 1899
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 476
Subjects: McMaster, John Bach; Palfrey, John Gorham; Quincy, Josiah; Webster, Daniel, 1782-1852.; Adams, John, 1735-1826; History.; Landscape.; Academic libraries.; Libraries.; United States -- History -- Revolution, 1775-1783.; Massachusetts -- Politics and government.; New England -- History.
Table of contents: value: John Adams, the Statesman of the American Revolution; Authentication of the Declaration of Independence; Constitutional relations of the American colonies to the English Government; Remarks on the new Historical School; Genesis of the Massachusetts Town; Political maxims; Remarks before the Sons of the American Revolution, Concord, April 19, 1894; Palfrey's people of New England; McMaster's history of the people of the United States; Josiah Quincy, the great mayor; Daniel Webster as an orator; Remarks at the dedication of a statue of Daniel Webster, Concord, N.H., June 17, 1886; A glance at Daniel Webster; Landscape in life and in poetry; The scope of a college library, - address at the Dedication of Wilson Hall, Dartmouth College Library; The old and the new order in New England life and letters - address at the Dedication of the Brooks Library Building, Brattleborough; Imaginative literature in Public Libraries - address at the Dedication of the Woods Memorial Library Building, Barre.