Word: adamses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Horace Mann immediately succeeded to John Quincy Adams' seat in Congress as an anti-Slavery Whig. In 1850 he wrecked what might have been a promising political career by breaking with Daniel Webster after that statesman's "Seventh of March Speech," advocating a compromise on the extension of...
SAM ADAMS-John C. Miller-Little, Brown ($4).
...decade before the Revolutionary War, a group of well-born Massachusetts men, known as "the brace of Adamses," caused as much mischief to royal governors as any rebellious family in the provinces. Chief among them was a grey, palsied, austere, middle-aged man named Sam Adams, who was considered in his day the greatest fomenter of revolution in the world, the most hated, praised and feared leader of the colonists, and who has since been supplanted in historic significance by men famed chiefly as his tools at the height of his own career. Last week this neglected U. S. hero...
Sam Adams is a lively, ironic book, brightened with choice quotations from the great days of political invective, when opponents called each other "tippling, nasty, vicious crews." "plucked gawkys," cowardly "herds of scalded hogs," "Cockatrice Eggs, which breed Serpents to poison the People." Subtitled Pioneer in Propaganda, it is the...
Indirectly casting doubt on the purity of Adams' motives, sophisticated Author Miller shows him as tenacious, wily, audacious, gives only a dim suggestion of the forces that inspired him in both his persistence and his cleverness. Born in 1722, Sam Adams was the son of a prosperous Boston brewer...