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John Adams: Party of One
by Grant, James
- Used
- Very Good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very Good/Very good
- ISBN 10
- 0374113149
- ISBN 13
- 9780374113148
- Seller
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About This Item
New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005. Presumed First Edition, First printing. Hardcover. Very good/Very good. viii, 530, [4] pages. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pencil erasure residue on fep. DJ has slight wear and soiling. James Grant (born 26 July, 1946) is an American writer and publisher. The founder of Grant's Interest Rate Observer, a twice-monthly journal of the financial markets, he is the author of Money of the Mind (1992), The Trouble with Prosperity (1996), John Adams: Party of One (2005), Mr. Speaker: The Life and Times of Thomas B. Reed, the Man Who Broke the Filibuster (2011), and The Forgotten Depression (2014) among other works. An acute examination of a paradoxical U.S. president. John Adams was an undiplomatic diplomat and an impolitic politician--a fierce revolutionary yet a detached and reluctant leader of the nation he helped to found. Few American public figures have ever been more devoted to doing the right thing, or more contemptuous of doing the merely popular thing. Yet his Yankee-bred fixation with ethical propriety and fiscal conservatism never stood in the way of his doing what was necessary. Adams hated debt, but as minister to the Netherlands during the Revolution, he was America's premier junk-bond salesman. And though raised a traditional Massachusetts Congregationalist, Adams was instrumental in bringing about the consecration of the first American Episcopal bishops. He was a warm and magnanimous friend and, on occasion, a man who fully vindicated the famous judgment of a rival he detested. Adams, said Benjamin Franklin, "means well for his country, is always an honest man, often a wise one, but, sometimes, and in some things, is absolutely out of his senses." James Grant examines this complex and often contradictory founding father in the most well-rounded and multi-faceted portrait of Adams to date. Going from his beginnings on a hardscrabble Massachusetts farm to the Continental Congress to the Court of St. James and the White House, Grant traces the words and deeds of one of our most learned but politically star-crossed leaders.
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- Bookseller
- Ground Zero Books (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 74262
- Title
- John Adams: Party of One
- Author
- Grant, James
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- Very good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Presumed First Edition, First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0374113149
- ISBN 13
- 9780374113148
- Publisher
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 2005
- Keywords
- John Adams, Abigail Adams, Quincy Adams, Continental Congress, Benjamin Franklin, Alexander Hamilton, Thomas Hutchinson, John Jay, Henry Laurens, James Otis, Benjamin Rush, Vergennes, Diplomat, Junk-Bond, President, Thomas Preston
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