John Adams & the prophets of progress
By: Zoltán Haraszti
Series: Grosset's universal library -- UL 168; Universal library -- 168.
Publisher: Grosset & Dunlap
Published: 1964
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 362
Subjects: Political science; History
Other titles: John Adams and the prophets of progress
Notes: "A study in the intellectual and political history of the eighteenth century."--Cover.

Originally published in 1952, Harvard University Press.

Bibliographical references included in "Notes": pages 303-352.
Table of contents: title: No statues or monuments; title: John Adams among his books; title: Adams political philosophy; title: Bolingbroke, the Ishmael of his age: The statesman. The deistic philosopher; title: Rousseau and the man of nature; title: Frederick, Voltaire, and d'Alembert; title: The communism of the Abbé de Mably; title: Turgot's attack on the American constitutions; title: The composition of Adams's defence; title: Lessons from the civil wars of France; title: The French Revolution: To August 4, 1789. The framing of the constitution. The removal of the King to Paris; title: Condorcet and the idea of porgress; title: Napoleon's bid for a continental alliance; title: Dr. Priestley and other English divines; title: The constant reader.