John Adams. E-book. Formato PDF John Torrey Morse   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

The men who first devised the Constitution and then made it operative, — who invented our governmental machine, and who then set it at work and ran it successfully until it ceased to.

Thomas Jefferson: American Statesman. E-book. Formato PDF John T. Morse   -  Astrid Publishing, 2017  - 

Originally published in 1898, Thomas Jefferson is a classic biography of the man who so deeply ingrained the republican ideals of the Founding Fathers into American society. As such, it is the kind of work that avoids the trap of noticing everything that went unnoticed in the past while failing to notice all that the past deemed notable. Immediately lauded by the critics when it was first published, John T. Morse's biography of Jefferson was embraced by the reading public.Thomas Jefferson is a biography of the man who so deeply ingrained the republican ideals of the Founding Fathers into American society. As such, it is the kind of work that avoids the trap of noticing everything that went unnoticed in the past while failing to notice all that the past deemed notable. Immediately lauded by the critics when it was first published, John T. Morse's biography of Jefferson was embraced by the reading public. Thomas Jefferson (1743-1826) was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. Previously, he was elected the second Vice President of the United States, serving under John Adams from 1797 to 1801. A proponent of democracy, republicanism, and individual rights motivating American colonists to break from Great Britain and form a new nation, he produced formative documents and decisions at both the state and national level.

The Life of Alexander Hamilton. E-book. Formato PDF John T. Morse   -  Forgotten Books, 2017  - 

But however inferior were the journals of that day to those of our own, it must be acknowledged that the former enjoyed one great advantage in the custom which prevailed for men of' the highest dis tinction in public life to use them as vehicles for disseminating Opinions among the people. Many in stances of this occur at once to memory, notably the numerous papers constituting the Federalist, which appeared at first as newspaper letters under the signature of Publius. While John Adams was vice-president of the United States he engaged in enterprises of this kind, contributing a series of ar ticles concerning French politics, known as the Dis courses on Davila. Indeed, so universal was the prac tice that Mr. Hildreth says that, of all the men of the Revolution capable of producing a newspaper essay, Jefferson was, perhaps, the only one who never touched pen to paper for the political enlightenment of the contemporaneous public. His preference was for correspondence. He practised political letter writing as an art, making it so efficient and manifest ing in it so much skill as would have called forth the Sincere admiration of Machiavelli. If one could give him the benefit of honorable motives, it would be necessary to praise his behavior in this respect; for anonymous political writing in the newspapers by prominent or responsible members of the government is a custom much to be deprecated. All that can be said is that the rules of that era permitted it; and when vice-president Adams and Mr. Secretary Hamilton furnished anonymous columns to editor Fenno, they did only what they had ample precedent for doing, and what the faulty taste of the times permitted.