Dust jacket notes: "In the entire span of the Adams dynasty, no public figure is more prominent than John Quincy Adams: U.S. Ambassador, U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, President, and U.S. Representative. No private figure is more pivotal to the Adams legend - or less heralded - than Louisa Adams. She was a lively, attractive, European-bred young woman. He was a stolid, authoritarian American. They were opposites who could express their love for each other only when apart. Theirs was a marriage 'of light to shadow; springtime to winter; of heart to cannibal.' On the surface they led a life of social glitter in the capitals of Europe and in Washington and Boston. But behind the doors of their homes, and the White House, they struggled for control of their sons and their own lives. The Adams tradition of public service came at a high cost: Their eldest son, George Washington Adams, was a suicide, their next son, John Adams 2d, and alcoholic and dead at thirty. While John Quincy, and later historians, portrayed his wife as fragile, weak, a social and political ornament, the opposite emerges from these detailed, well-researched pages rich with anecdote. Louisa Adams traveled alone across the Russian steppes in winter in the wake of Napoleon's retreat. She underwent surgery in 1820 - without anesthesia - and survived twelve pregnancies. She battled depression, hypochondria, and her husband's relentless ambition, while questioning her own role and fulfillment as a woman living through a period of widespread suppression of women. She campaigned for her husband's goal to be President, and prepared his battle against slavery and e petitions for human freedom before the House of Representatives. In sum, this is the struggle of a public man to achieve prominence and power and the efforts of a suppressed woman to understand her life and its meaning...."

Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams

SHEPHERD, Jack

Biographies & Memoirs

McGraw-Hill Companies

Discusses the fine points of running style, stretching exercises, weight training, equipment selection, and diet and gives tips on competing in races up to and beyond the full marathon distance

Runner's Handbook (Penguin Handbooks)

Glover, Bob

Health, Fitness & Dieting

Penguin??Books

If you're a runner, or would like to be one, The Runner's Handbook will answer all your questions. Fitness expert Bob Glover-who has trained thousands of runners-shows you how to devise a training program and keep at the top of your form.

The Runner's Handbook

The Runner's Handbook : The Classic Fitness Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Runners

Sports & Outdoors

Individual Sports

Outlines a program that can bring families together as it gets them into shape, offering fitness evaluations, information on specific exercises, fitness games and advice on nutrition

The Family Fitness Handbook

Exercise & Fitness

If you're a runner, or would like to be one, The Runner's Handbook will answer all your questions. Fitness expert Bob Glover-who has trained thousands of runners-shows you how to devise a training program and keep at the top of your form.

The Runner's Handbook : The Bestselling Classic Fitness Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Runners (2nd rev Edition)

Glover, Shelly-lynn Florence

Reference

Penguin Publishing Group

By Jack Shepherd. Introduction by Daniel J. Boostin. ISBN 0-316-78497-4. The Adams Chronicles is the endlessly fascinating text and picture history of four generations of one of America's most prominent families, told largely in their own words from diaries and letters. The four generations in this volume are represented by (1) John Adams, (2) John Quincy Adams, (3) Charles Francis Adams, and (4) the brothers John Quincy II, Charles Francis Hr., Henry, and Brooks Adams. Hardcover.

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness

Little,Brown & Co

This book was written by Jack Shepherd and published by Smithmark Publishing in 1989. It's 448 pages do a great job in relaying the story of America's greatest socio-political family. Shelve K-15

History

World

Smithmark Pub.

"Shepherd has crafted an enthralling confrontation that superbly sustains the delicate balance between the self-effacing nuts-and-bolts humanism of Paine and the vulnerable fiery politics of Blake. A rare treat." (James Christopher, Independent) William Blake, the poet and artist was born in London in 1757. He became an apprentice engraver at the age of 14 and remained poor throughout his life. He believed fervently in the revolution of the inner man, that only personal salvation and spiritual regeneration could acheive a better world, fearing that social revolution would only replace one tyranny with another. Blake died in 1827. Thomas Paine, the political thinker and revolutionary, was born 20 years before Blake in Thetford, Norfolk. An active figure in both the American and French revolutions in England he was considered a traitor and in 1791 fled across the channel to France. After a period of imprisonment during 'The Terror' (1793-4), he returned to America, where he died in 1809 reviled by the Christian fundamentalists for what they saw as the profanity of his beliefs. Against this background In Lambeth which starred Bob Peck and Michael Maloney in its London premiere, shows Tom Paine going to pay his respects to William Blake. "Out of their encounter, Shepherd's play orchestrates a fascinating clash between two types of revolutionary: the idealistic visionary and the principled pragmatist." (Paul Taylor, Independent)"In his beautiful new play...Shepherd has captured the essence of both men and has found them a magical location and a good moment in history in which to meet." (Time Out) "Charm is not a quality one would immediately associate with either William Blake or Tom Paine, but Jack Shepherd's play about a meeting between the two in 1791 has it in abundance." (The Times)

IN LAMBETH

Literature & Fiction

Dramas & Plays

Heinemann

Discusses the fine points of running style, stretching exercises, weight training, equipment selection, and diet and gives tips on competing in races up to and beyond the full marathon distance

Runner's Handbook

Viking Adult

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Cannibals of the Heart: A Personal Biography of Louisa Catherine and John Quincy Adams

Runner's Handbook (Penguin Handbooks)

The Runner's Handbook

The Runner's Handbook : The Classic Fitness Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Runners

The Family Fitness Handbook

The Runner's Handbook : The Bestselling Classic Fitness Guide for Beginning and Intermediate Runners (2nd rev Edition)

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness

The Adams Chronicles: Four Generations of Greatness

IN LAMBETH

Runner's Handbook