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Review of the John Adams (2008) miniseries with Paul Giamatti that aired on HBO. MY WEBSITE: www.robertcrayola.com JOHN ADAMS (2008): www.amazon.com Recorded July 27, 2011 in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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He was called the vibrant new voice of his generation -- the avatar of the Beat movement. In 1957, on the heels of the triumphant debut of his groundbreaking novel, On The Road, Jack Kerouac was a literary rock star, lionized by his fans and devotees. But along with sudden fame and media hype came his unraveling, and, by 1960, Kerouac was a jaded cynic, disaffected from the Beat culture he helped create and tortured by self-doubt, addiction and depression. He secretly retreats to Lawrence Ferlinghetti's rustic cabin in the Big Sur woods. But his plan is foiled by his own inner demons, and what ensues that summer becomes the basis for Kerouac's gritty, yet lyrically told, semi-autobiographical novel, Big Sur. The story unfolds through the narrative arc of Kerouac's prose, told in voice-over by actor and Kerouac interpreter, John Ventimiglia (of HBO's The Sopranos); through first-hand accounts and recollections of Kerouac's contemporaries, whom many of the characters in the book are based on such as Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Carolyn Cassady and Michael McClure; by the interpretations and reflections of writers, poets, actors and musicians who have been deeply influenced by Kerouac's unique gifts like Tom Waits, Sam Shepard, Patti Smith, Aram Saroyan and Donal Logue.
Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 (Chapter 65) by Murray N. Rothbard Tube. Duration : 37.38 Mins.
Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...
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George Alexander Graham Adamson was born in Etawah, India (then British India) on the 3rd of February 1906. At the age of 18 George came to Kenya, East Africa in 1924 to work on his father's coffee plantation. Working on a plantation was not suited to his adventurous spirit and in the following years he tried various things and worked at many different jobs. Years later in 1968 he vividly described these adventures in his fascinating biography titled 'Bwana Game'(European title) and in the USA titled 'A Lifetime With Lions'. His 2nd book published in 1986 is an equally fascinating autobiography titled 'My Pride and Joy'. In 1938 at age 32 this tan and handsome young man with sandy blond hair and striking blue eyes joined Kenya's Game Department as a warden. Being a game warden was an occupation that suited him extremely well and one at which he thrived. He met and married Joy four years later. Joy had three miscarriages and they were never able to have children...Sadly on August 20, 1989 George Adamson was murdered in Kenya, East Africa by Somalian bandits when he went to the rescue of his assistant and a young European tourist in the Kora National Park. He is buried in the Kora National Park near to his brother Terrance, Super Cub and his beloved lion friend Boy. Song: Elijah Artiste: Gary Reynolds & the brides of obscurity. Album: Instant happiness. electrokitty Records www.garyreynolds.com
David McCullough: 2011 National Book Festival Video Clips. Duration : 40.10 Mins.
Historian and author David McCullough appears at the 2011 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Librarian of Congress James H. Billington has called David McCullough the "citizen chronicler" for his meticulously researched and beautifully written historical books, such as the Pulitzer Prize winners "Truman" and "John Adams," the latter of which became an Emmy Award-winning miniseries on HBO. He is also a two-time winner of the National Book Award, for "The Path Between the Seas" and "Mornings on Horseback." His newest book is "The Greater Journey: Americans in Paris" (Simon & Schuster). McCullough has also received the National Book Foundation Distinguished Contribution to American Letters Award, the National Humanities Medal and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. For transcript, captions, and more information, visit www.loc.gov
Imagine yourself as a young adult, pulled from friends and family and called upon to defend your country in a foreign land. One day, while on guard duty with your platoon, you're suddenly surrounded by a group of hostile, threatening people--a jeering, taunting mob, probably armed, and stirred to anger by faceless voices in the darkness calling on them to fire. A shot rings out--your platoon returns fire--and the next day, you're hauled into court and charged with murder. Your case is set for trial, and the only jury around is made up of the very same mob that was threatening you the night before.
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Defense lawyers are called upon by our theory of justice for a range of tasks. They account for to their clients what is happening, and make sure that each defendant knows his rights, and is fully aware of what is happening. As defense counsel, the lawyer is charged with protecting those rights, and ensuring that the client receives the protections afforded to every citizen by our laws. The lawyer will take over dealing with the prosecution, call and survey any witnesses in court, and do all things the law allows to keep his client from harm--or, at the least, to minimize the damage. This means fascinating the prosecution's case, its conduct, and on occasion, the very laws that govern the case.
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We often take these protections for granted, or scoff at them as mere "technicalities" that do dinky but allow criminals to leave justice. It is easy, and often tempting, to dismiss defense lawyers (and, for that matter, all lawyers) as professional hacks, whose only function is to confuse juries and confound courts. And sometimes, when defending citizen who are clearly guilty, it may seem that defense lawyers are a needless extravagance, who only get in the way of protecting citizen from the worst elements of society. But just as crimes come in a range of shapes and sizes, criminals are often indistinguishable from the commonplace citizen, a fact that some of us only come to perceive when we find ourselves seated at the defendant's table, with fingers pointing at us. It is then that we perceive just how valuable a vigorous and independent defense bar is to a free society--allowing commonplace citizens to challenge the actions of their own government. Viewed in this light, the bedrock of American liberty is our right to use the rules we have all agreed to live by to defend ourselves in a public setting, where the actions of the same government that seeks to condemn us must prove that we have broken the law.
Defense lawyers don't exist just to make every person else's life difficult. And their job is a critical, if often misunderstood safeguard against tyranny. Just dream what would happen if the government could conclude whom to jail--without the messiness of subjecting their actions to the test of law. The leisure of all of us would be in the hands of government bureaucrats--people, like all others, who have their likes, dislikes, biases, and petty grievances.
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In large measure, the law exists to protect us from bullies. But without the means of fascinating the actions of our own government, there would be dinky safety for the tasteless citizen against a bully who happened to wear a policeman's badge, or a prosecutor's suit, or who happened to enjoy the friendship of someone for whom justice means doing right by his friends. And if you should ever find yourself on the wrong end of performance taken by the government, you will find that the potential to resort to the law to defend yourself will be critical. Among the first casualties of Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia was the independence of the courts and the legal profession. Once those bulwarks against tyranny fell, there was nothing to protect tasteless citizen against the unbridled assertion of governmental power--no matter how misguided, petty, or malevolent it might prove to be. But it is the rare government that will strike its own citizens directly: instead, the attacks come against marginal groups, ones that nobody would rise to defend, and who seem to every person to be a threat to the safety of the state. Unfortunately, those threats never seemed to end; and so the knocks on doors of enemies of the state continued, as the government kept looking new enemies to fight, and new threats to fear.
The example cited at the starting is from one of the most famous confrontations in American History--told from the side of the defendant, rather than the victim. It was the Boston Massacre, which arose at a time of growing tensions in the middle of the Colonies and Great Britain. The encounter in the middle of soldiers and the angry mob led to shots--nobody knows for sure who fired the first one, although some testimony indicated that it was a terrified British soldier--and in a country without a strong defense bar, the young soldiers would likely have been quickly taken out and hung, if not by the Law, then by the mob itself.
Thanks to a courageous Boston attorney, the defendants received a fair trial and most were acquitted on grounds of self-defense, the sentiments of the mob notwithstanding. A couple were convicted of the lesser fee of manslaughter and released--the allowable verdict when emotions and provocations don't quite excuse a homicide, but make it less an outrage and more a fallible human reaction to extreme stress.
The defense lawyer was a important member of the state bar, who later served his country in a range of ways--statesman, ambassador, signer of the announcement of Independence, and the second president of the new United States.
It was JohnAdams...patriot and rebel, for the defense.
Our Criminal Courts - The Role of Defense CounselConceived in Liberty, Vol. 1: A New Land, A New People (Chapter 19) by Murray N. Rothbard Tube. Duration : 30.63 Mins.
Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...
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Foundations of Modern Social Thought (SOCY 151) Professor Szelenyi introduces the course to the students. Then he introduces each social thinker we will cover in the course: Hobbes, Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Smith, JS Mill, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Weber, and Durkheim. He provides an overview of their biographies, their major works, and their major contributions. 00:00 - Chapter 1. Introduction: An Interdisciplinary Approach 14:36 - Chapter 2. Hobbes: The Troublemaker 19:07 - Chapter 3. Locke's Separation of Powers 21:50 - Chapter 4. The Adventurous Life and Work of Montesquieu 27:00 - Chapter 5. Rousseau: The Renaissance Man 34:17 - Chapter 6. The Two Adam Smiths 37:58 - Chapter 7. Mill's (Revisionist) Utilitarianism 40:51 - Chapter 8. The Well-Known Marx 41:51 - Chapter 9. Nietzsche: The First Post-modern Theorist 43:12 - Chapter 10. Brief Overviews on Freud, Weber and Durkheim Complete course materials are available at the Open Yale Courses website: open.yale.edu This course was recorded in Fall 2009.
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Former first lady Laura Bush appears at the 2010 National Book Festival. Speaker Biography: Laura Bush has always been passionate about reading. An Honorary Ambassador for the UN Literary Decade, she hosted the first-ever White House Conference on Global Literacy in 2006 to encourage international cooperation and build free societies through literacy. In 2001 she joined with the Library of Congress to launch the first National Book Festival in Washington. As the governor's wife, Mrs. Bush founded the statewide Texas Book Festival in 1995. The former first lady has taught in the Dallas, Houston and Austin public schools. She is the co-author with her daughter Jenna of "Read All About It!" Her current book is "Spoken from the Heart" (Simon & Schuster).
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John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. Indeed, few were more instrumental in making American independence a reality. He performed yeoman's service in the Continental Congress during the revolution and was a key figure in negotiating the treaty that brought peace following the long War of Independence. He held the highest office in the land and as president he courageously chose to pursue a course that he thought best for the nation, though it was fraught with personal political dangers. Adams emerges here a man full of contradictions. He could be petty and jealous, but also meditative, insightful, and provocative. In private and with friends he could be engagingly witty. He was terribly self-centered, but in his relationship with his wife and children his shortcomings were tempered by a deep, abiding love. John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.
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John Ferling has nearly forty years of experience as a historian of early America. The author of acclaimed histories such as A Leap into the Dark and Almost a Miracle, he has appeared on many TV and film documentaries on this pivotal period of our history. In John Adams: A Life, Ferling offers a compelling portrait of one of the giants of the Revolutionary era. Drawing on extensive research, Ferling depicts a reluctant revolutionary, a leader who was deeply troubled by the warfare that he helped to make, and a fiercely independent statesman. The book brings to life an exciting time, an age in which Adams played an important political and intellectual role. Indeed, few were more instrumental in making American independence a reality. He performed yeoman's service in the Continental Congress during the revolution and was a key figure in negotiating the treaty that brought peace following the long War of Independence. He held the highest office in the land and as president he courageously chose to pursue a course that he thought best for the nation, though it was fraught with personal political dangers. Adams emerges here a man full of contradictions. He could be petty and jealous, but also meditative, insightful, and provocative. In private and with friends he could be engagingly witty. He was terribly self-centered, but in his relationship with his wife and children his shortcomings were tempered by a deep, abiding love. John Ferling's masterful John Adams: A Life is a singular biography of the man who succeeded George Washington in the presidency and shepherded the fragile new nation through the most dangerous of times.
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Conceived in Liberty, Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 (Chapter 21) by Murray N. Rothbard Tube. Duration : 9.80 Mins.
Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...
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Audio book version of Murray N. Rothbard's classic 'Economic Thought Before Adam Smith: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume I.' Read by Jeff Riggenbach. mises.org In Economic Thought Before Adam Smith, Murray Rothbard traces economic ideas from ancient sources to show that laissez-faire liberalism and economic thought itself began with the scholastics and early Roman, Greek, and canon law. He celebrates Aristotle and Democritus, for example, but loathes Plato and Diogenes. He is kind toward Taoism and Stoicism. He is no fan of Tertullian but very much likes St. Jerome, who defended the merchant class. Now, that takes us only to page 33, just the beginning of a wild ride through the middle ages and renaissance and modern times through 1870. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard http Read 'Economic Thought Before Adam Smith' online: mises.org Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: Classical Economics: An Austrian Perspective on the History of Economic Thought, Volume II mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com The Ethics of Liberty mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com For a ...
Adams, Samuel It is sure that no one did more to make the United States a free and independent nation than did Samuel Adams of Boston, one of the great founding fathers. It may be that no one else did so much. Samuel Adams wanted the revolution more than anyone else. He stirred up the spirits and tempers of Americans when otherwise they might have been content to make a bad peace with the English king. He started some of the dramatic events, like the Boston Tea Party, that "stirred men's souls."
He faced danger and dared the fates time after time. From the success of the revolution he gained far less in fame and fortune than any of the others who approached him in stature. Yet he did not seem to care. A cousin of JohnAdams, the second president, but a few years older, Samuel Adams was born in Boston in 1722. Like his cousin John, he went to Harvard. Also like his cousin John, he had independent ideas when he was quite young; at the age of 21, he proposed the question, "Is it not valid to resist the king if you cannot otherwise keep your country?" Samuel Adams was in business, but he did not make money; in fact, he lost what small money he had. He was more interested in opposing the harsh acts of the English king and Parliament, which were then trying to accumulate unfair taxes from the American colonies, not yet a separate nation.
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When in 1765 the Stamp Act was passed by Parliament, forcing Americans to buy a tax stamp and put it on every piece of paper used in legal transactions, Samuel Adams opposed it vigorously. The British did not like that, but they were trying to keep the Americans peaceful, and general Thomas Gage, who commanded all the British soldiers in this country, called Samuel Adams to him and said, "You should make your peace with the king." Adams, who was a Puritan and very correct in his religion and behavior, answered, "I have made my peace with the King of kings. I will not abandon the cause of my country." In 1774 a Continental Congress was called in Philadelphia, with representatives of eleven of the American colonies present.
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Starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney, executive produced by Playtone's Tom Hanks and Gary Goetzman, and directed by Emmy®-winner Tom Hooper, JOHN ADAMS is a seven-part epic miniseries event that explores American history through the eyes of one of the greatest of the founding fathers, John Adams (Giamatti), a fiercely independent spirit whose unwavering vision steered America through a tumultuous period.
Based on David McCullough's Pulitzer Prize-winning biography, the miniseries is produced for HBO Films by Playtone.
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HBO's lavish, sprawling John Adams epic was given vital emotional wallop by the soundtrack. Two composers created music which was needed to convey the fervor of a newly emerging nation, and the quiet moments of a proud man who lived a long life shot through with sadness--losing his first a child, and then later, in his twilight years, his beloved wife Abigail. The orchestral sweep is clearly of the Twentieth Century, undulating like American landscapes. However both Rob Lane and Joseph Vitarelli are adept at drawing on our shared cultural sensibilities. They evoke the period of the Revolutionary War without stilted mannerisms. While the script, actors and the director portray history, the soundtrack resonates emotionally with the modern world. --David Greenberger
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Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...
Throughout American history, there have been many historical and amazing figures we will always remember. Without these brave people, who knows what or where we would have been? Would we still be under the power of Great Britain or would we still have slaves? Would white men still have the most power out of everyone else who lived here?
There are answers we will never know. Fortunately, we can say we are not under Britain operate and we have much more fairer rules. We are now our own nation. But how did we get to this point? How many lives were sacrificed in order to get where we are today? Many lives have been sacrificed and much hard work has been put forward. Many people idolize these people as heroes. In reality, they were no distinct than me and you.
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Samuel Adams was born on September twenty seventh in the year of seventeen twenty two. He was the tenth child of his parents. At the start of his life, Adams was not as thriving as he would turn out to be.
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John Quincy Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President, following in the footsteps of his father, John. At fourteen he was secretary to the Minister to Russia and, later, was himself Minister to the Netherlands and Prussia. He was U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and then President for one ill-fated term. His private life showed a parallel descent. He was a poet, writer, critic, and Professor of Oratory at Harvard. He married a talented and engaging Southerner, but two of his three sons were disappointments. This polymath and troubled man, caught up in both a democratic age not to his understanding and the furies of passion, was an American lion in winter.
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Who is the real John Quincy Adams? The brilliant secretary of state, prime mover behind the Monroe Doctrine, and principled opponent of slavery, defender of the Africans shanghaied aboard the Amistad? Or the ineffectual president stymied by a hostile Congress and his own self-righteousness, the vindictive political foe famed for his cold, disagreeable character? Paul C. Nagel, author of two previous books about the Adams family, seeks to give readers a more human Adams (1767-1848) whose complex nature contained many contradictions. John Quincy Adams is a valuable revisionist biography of a misunderstood figure at the crossroads of American history.
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Very early in his life, he was brought up in a religious environment. He took the word of God seriously. Adams father was also very religious and played a huge role in Adams young life. His father encouraged Adams to study, know religion and to do his best. With his fathers support, he went on to continue his education. At age fourteen, he went to Harvard College. He got a Bachelor degree in theology. He then became concerned in politics. He began to feel that British operate over the colonies was unjust and began relating to John Locke's opinions. The theory of "life, health, liberty, or possessions" and being born with ownership fully caught Adams attention. He began to dream of a free nation and began to dream of a government where the ownership of the citizens would be protected.
But young Adams did not get his start off as fast as he would have liked. His father sent him off to work as a young enterprise man. Adams was fired shortly. His dad then hoped that Adams could start off his own business. This was Adams first failure in life. Although it crushed his spirits, he knew this was not what he certainly wanted. That is when he started his vocation in politics. He started off as a writer. Adams and a few friends published a blog called The communal Advertiser. It talked about ideas concerning politics and business. It was general for a while until he started talking about Parliament. He said that citizens should not give too much respect to the higher authority that never cared about the citizens. He got mixed responses.
Some of his all too human situations complicated death in his family. He lost his wife, Elizabeth, when she was young. She was only thirty two. He lost a son named Samuel but he died eighteen days after birth. Elizabeth then gave birth to another son. He died the next day of being born. She then gave birth to their first daughter named Mary. She only lived for three months and nine days. another daughter named Samantha remained healthy. They then had a stillborn son. Today when anything hears about a family death, we immediately feel the pain. Imagine losing how many people Adams had lost in life. I am not yet a parent but I cannot even begin to Imagine what it would be like to lose a child. On top of it all, losing your spouse is never easy either. It took Adams some time but he pulled it through. It was not easy as he started to go bankrupt.
He overcame these problems to come to be the great frame we study today by setting his priorities straight. It is not uncommon for some people to grieve for one man their entire life. Adams took his time to grieve but knew there was a mission to complete. He knew there was something to do and that there was a force to fight. He was religious so he may have taken this situation as spiritual and entrusting God to take care of his wife and children who passed on. How he got over these loses and bankruptcy might also have to do with Adams ""gloried in his poverty and compared himself to one of the 'Old Romans' who despised money and devoted themselves to their country's welfare." From what I see from this, despite everything, he still could not stop thinking about his country. It was a mission for him.
Some of the contributions he made to manufacture America free was becoming an active member in Boston town meetings. He gave his opinions and was extremely passionate. He spoke out against the Sugar/Stamp Act and talked about how unfair it was that England as taxing America to pay off the French and Indian War. At first, no one certainly listened or paid attentiveness but finally people became concerned in what he had to say. A illustrious quote is "For if our trade is taxed, why not our lands? Why not the furnish of our lands and everything we possess or make use of? This we apprehend annihilates our rent right to govern and tax ourselves. It strikes at our British privileges, which as we have never forfeited them."
He helped start boycotts on British goods. He won the trust and leadership of Boston. After the Boston Tea Party, he got more power and felt great about his mission.
Many started listening after that. He made a point and it caught everyone's attention. He was selected as to be part of the First Continental Congress. He was proud of being selected for this and for being part of the proclamation of Independence. He also served as president for one year to the United States of America. His contributions were very important to the freedom of America. He was outspoken and dared to dream of freedom when others were afraid. When he died, his second cousin, JohnAdams said "Without the character of Samuel Adams, the true history of the American Revolution can never be written. For fifty years his pen, his tongue, his activity, were enduringly exerted for his country without fee or reward."
The Easy to Understand Life Story of Samuel AdamsConceived in Liberty, Vol. 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 (Chapter 79) by Murray N. Rothbard Video Clips. Duration : 5.15 Mins.
Murray N. Rothbard's ambition was to shed new light on Colonial history and show that the struggle for human liberty was the heart and soul of this land from its discovery through the culminating event of the American Revolution. These four volumes are a tour de force, enough to establish Rothbard as one of the great American historians. Murray N. Rothbard (1926-1995) was America's greatest radical libertarian author -- writing authoritatively about ethics, philosophy, economics, American history, and the history of ideas. He presented the most fundamental challenge to the legitimacy of government, and he refined thinking about the self-ownership and non-coercion principles. Biography of Murray N. Rothbard mises.org Read Rothbard's classic four-volume historical treatise, 'Conceived in Liberty' online: Conceived in Liberty, Volume 1: A New Land, A New People: The American Colonies in the Seventeenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 2: "Salutary Neglect": The American Colonies in the First Half of the Eighteenth Century mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 3: Advance to Revolution, 1760-1775 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Conceived in Liberty, Volume 4: The Revolutionary War, 1775-1784 mises.org Audio book version: www.youtube.com Links to more online books and essays by Murray N. Rothbard: For a New Liberty: The Libertarian Manifesto mises.org Audio book version: www ...
