Charles Francis Adams, 1807-1886 /

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Duberman, Martin B. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Boston : Houghton Mifflin, 1961.
Subjects:
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.