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(b. October 30, 1735; d. July 4, 1826) Second president of the United States 1797–1801). In the years between his birth in 1735 and death in 1826 John Adams became a member of an elite group of men who became universally praised as...

As one of the nation's Founding Fathers, John Adams enjoyed a long and distinguished career as a public servant. He was a delegate from Massachusetts to the Continental Congress and was a member of the Continental Congress team that drafted the...

John Adams Born October 30, 1735 (Braintree, Massachusetts) Died July 4, 1826 (Quincy, Massachusetts) U.S. president, vice president, lawyer, writer John Adams fought for American independence and liberties with extraordinary zeal and patriotism. A...

Born October 1735Braintree, MassachusettsDied July 4, 1826Quincy, Massachusetts President and vice president of the United States, diplomat, lawyer,...

For other persons named John Adams, see John Adams (disambiguation). John Adams, Jr. (October 30,1735 – July 4, 1826) was the second President of the United States (1797–1801). He also served as America's first Vice President...

The Metropolitan Opera and the English National Opera will co-produce stagings of John Adams' "Doctor Atomic" and a new work by Osvaldo Golijov."Doctor Atomic," which had its world premiere at the San Francisco Opera in October 2005, will open at the Met on Oct. 13,...

In a flirtatious courtship letter to his future wife, Abigail, John Adams addresses her as "Miss Adorable." After she died 56 years later, the nation's second president writes his son that his capacity for grief was so exhausted that death "has no sting left for...

David McCullough, whose next book will be a history of Americans in Paris, remembers when he first laid eyes on the French capital. He was a freshman at Yale University — young, in love, "impressionable."And at the movies."I went to see 'An American in Paris,'"...

Genius architect and empty-nester Peter Eisenman has sold his 21st-floor apartment at 101 West 12th Street. His buyer, nightclub owner Noah Tepperberg, works in a world that owes more to busty celebrities and lousy cocaine than to architectural anti-humanism or post-functionalism, but that’s how...

In the following essay, Ellis examines Adams's defense of his political philosophy through his correspondence with John Taylor, the main critic of Adams's A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America.

In the following essay, Wharton explores the apparent ideological split between John Adams and Thomas Jefferson in the years following the American Revolution and maintains that, contrary to popular belief, Adams's political philosophy remained fundamentally consistent throughout this period.

In the following essay, Thompson claims that most scholars have overestimated the importance of Adams's Puritan background and minimized the importance of philosophic rationalism in the formulation of his revolutionary philosophy.

Describes the life of John Adams, second president of the U.S. Details his role in the American Revolution. Examines his performance as the second president of the United States.

A biography of John Adams, who was the second president of the United States. Facts about his childhood, political career, and family life are included.

Essay discusses how the actions of John Adams redarding the Alien and Sedition Acts were wrong.