The remarkable education of John Quincy Adams
By: Phyllis Lee Levin
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Parlgrave Macmillan
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 524
ISBN-13: 9781137279620
Subjects: Presidents; Education; Biography
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: A legacy more valuable than gold or silver; title: A great deal of room for me to grow better; title: Some compensation for me not being with my friends at Braintree; title: A journal; title: Almost at the world's end; title: Promise to produce a worthy character; title: A son who is the greatest traveller of his age; title: And of a sister who fulfills my most sanguine expectations; title: To have a degree at Harvard; title: Your ever affectionate brother; title: Your ever affectionate brother; title: Study is my mistress; title: While a student in the office of Theophilus Parsons Newburyport; title: Exposed to the perils of sentiment; title: I am on the bridge between wisdom and folly; title: And I, too, am a scribbler; title: The times change and we change with them; title: The magnitude of the trust and my own incompetency; title: The usual mixture between sweet and bitter; title: The age of innocence and thoughtlessness; title: Prudence is a sorry matchmaker; title: Oh my Louisa!; title: For the friend of your life; title: Wise and in the best interests of the country; title: To turn weariness itself into pleasure; title: A painful retrospective; title: With no small difficulty; title: Another feather against a whirlwind; title: Like a fish out of water; title: Apostasy; title: In honorable diplomatic exile.