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American phoenix : John Quincy and Louisa Adams, the War of 1812, and the exile that saved American independence

Call Number

  • 973.52 C7715 (CEN)

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Publication Information

Nashville : Thomas Nelson, c2013.

Physical Description

x, 502 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Contents

  • Journey interrupted
  • Murder outside
  • Thief inside
  • Lost
  • The crossing
  • Journey begins
  • Fireworks
  • Good-bye, Boston birches
  • Danish prey
  • Three hundred Americans
  • Caricature vs. character
  • All the world's a stage
  • Baltic circle
  • Fig leaves
  • Deja vu
  • Eve's leaves
  • Loneliness and splendor
  • When in Rome
  • French économie
  • Ice hills
  • Divorce
  • Water
  • Winter woes
  • Contradictions
  • Pretense and propriety
  • Plato's beard
  • Moving on
  • Fencing pirates
  • French choice
  • French accomplice
  • Obstinate
  • American cinderellas
  • Christening
  • The snub
  • New year's bang
  • Exit strategy
  • French cooling
  • Recall and relocation
  • Correspondence and contractions
  • Supreme recall
  • Summer solstice
  • The removal
  • The confinement
  • Christening reprise
  • Comets
  • Baltic freeze
  • Interference
  • Tomorrow
  • Heaven
  • Enemy within
  • Impressment
  • Retreat
  • Dry bones
  • Journey resurrected
  • Escape
  • American phoenix
  • Queen of hearts
  • King of spades
  • The star-spangled banner
  • Antebellum
  • Vive!
  • Epilogue: the birches of Boston.

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