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Book Reporter: "Lavish and abundant in documentation, readers will be delighted with the fascinating, colorful narrative in John Adams." [8] The New York Times: "...a lucid and compelling work." [9] The New York Review of Books: "This big but extremely readable book is by far the best biography of Adams ever written." [10]
A Defence of the Constitutions of Government of the United States of America is a three-volume work by John Adams, written between 1787 and 1788.The text was Adams’ response to criticisms of the proposed American government, particularly those made by French economist and political theorist Anne Robert Jacques Turgot, who had argued against bicameralism and separation of powers.
The first seven chapters were produced by John Quincy Adams. [1] The premier modern biography was Honest John Adams, a 1933 biography by the noted French specialist in American history Gilbert Chinard, who came to Adams after writing his acclaimed 1929 biography of Jefferson. For a generation, Chinard's work was regarded as the best life of ...
Tottel also published Thomas More's Utopia and another collection of More's writings, John Lydgate's translations from Giovanni Boccaccio, and books by William Staunford and Thomas Tusser. The majority of his publications were legal treatises, including a legal history of the reign of Richard III , and legal yearbooks covering parts of the ...
Hallelujah Junction is a composition for two pianos written in 1996 by the American composer John Adams. [1] Adams titled his autobiography after this composition. [2] A two-CD retrospective album of works by Adams on the Nonesuch label is also entitled Hallelujah Junction, but does not include the composition.
There is a similar technological and class ambivalence about the 1846 sonnet on "Illustrated Books and Newspapers". Its argument is that, while the invention of printing had been a step upward from manuscript culture, "this vile abuse of pictured page" as represented by the popular press is an intellectual retreat to infantilism. [53]
Sonnet 65 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form, abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
I Was Looking at the Ceiling and Then I Saw the Sky is a 1995 "song play" with music composed by John Adams and a libretto by June Jordan. [1]The work is scored for three mezzo sopranos, high tenor, tenor and two baritones, accompanied by an ensemble comprising two reed players (clarinet, bass clarinet, alto saxophone), three keyboards (piano, keyboard samplers), acoustic and electric guitars ...