Charles Francis Adams - Couverture souple

Adams, Charles Francis

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0877541817 ISBN 13 : 9780877541813

Editeur : Chelsea House Pub, 1980

Synopsis

Book by Adams Charles Francis

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

TwENTT-SEVEN years have now elapsed since Mr. A dams returned from Europe, after the Geneva arbitration of 1872, in which he rendered his last considerable public service, and it P. lacks a few days only of thirteen years since his death. No use whatever has hitherto been made of his papers. Though neither in bulk nor in a interest equal to the accumulations left by John VA dams or by John Quincy A dams, these have none the less a distinct value, shedding, as they do, much contemporaneous light on a period and a struggle which, not improbably, will hereafter be accounted the most momentous in American history. Mr. A dams was not an active letterwriter, or systematic collector of material; but he preserved all his oorrespondenoe, together with copies of his own letters, and for over fifty years, from the time he entered Harvard, he kept a diary, in which there is scarcely a break. The time has now come when this material may fairly be used. The following sketch is, therefore, in part a preliminary study, and in .-.
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Chelsea House Pub
• Date d'édition: 1980
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0877541817
• ISBN 13: 9780877541813
• Reliure: Broché
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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