Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 /
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Boston :
Houghton Mifflin,
1961.
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Table of Contents:
- Mr. and Mrs. John Quincy Adams
- A childhood abroad
- Adolescence in New England
- The unestablished suitor
- The solid citizen
- Political baptism: Anitmasonry
- On the road to Whiggery
- First years in the State Legislature
- Emergence as an Antislavery leader
- A developing crusade
- Climax of the Anti-Texas movement
- The Conscience Whigs
- The Free-Soil Party and the election of 1848
- Rise of the coalition
- Antislavery atrophy
- A floundering response to Kansas-Nebraska
- Literary activity; political reward
- The freshman Congressman
- The Secession crisis and the Committee of Thirty-Three
- A troubled beginning as minister to England
- The critical year: 1863
- A relaxation in tensions
- The pleasures of retirement
- The Geneva arbitration begins
- - Adams and the liberal Republicans
- The arbitration safely concluded
- Closing years.