John Adams (American Presidents (Transaction Paperback)) by Anne Burleigh

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By Anne Burleigh

guy for the a while. John Adams, thinker of the Revolution and early the United States, and player in lots of of the key occasions of that interval, strove to fi nd common styles within the lives of all males. His existence and ideas are as pertinent to our time as they have been to his personal. We nonetheless consider the character of the unbreakable bond among liberty and legislations. As did Adams, we query the way to relate the objective of freedom to the authority valuable in political society.

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