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message 1: by Bryan, Assisting Moderator - Presidential Series, Military History Lead (last edited Jan 12, 2012 06:25am) (new) - rated it 3 stars
Jan 11, 2012 11:21am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments This is a thread to list and add all of the books and authors that Nagel says JQA read in the current Presidential read: John Quincy Adams

We will try to list them by chapter if possible.

~Bryan

John Quincy Adams A Public Life, a Private LifePaul C. Nagel


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Jan 17, 2012 06:43am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Two

John Trumbull


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Jan 23, 2012 06:01am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Three

The Reports of Sir Edward Coke, Knt. In Thirteen PartsEdward Coke

The First Part of the Institutes of the Laws of England, Or, a Commentary upon Littleton Not the Name of the Author Only, but of the Law ItselfEdward Coke

The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.I., Part CDavid Humes

The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire Edward GibbonEdward Gibbon

Confessions (World's Classics) Jean-Jacques RousseauJean-Jacques Rousseau

Notes on the State of Virginia Thomas JeffersonThomas Jefferson

Rights of Man Thomas PaineThomas Paine


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Feb 02, 2012 07:07am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Four

TacitusTacitus


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Feb 08, 2012 06:32pm

Bentley | 19381 comments He certainly was well read.


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Feb 09, 2012 06:09am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Bentley wrote: "He certainly was well read."

Indeed he was. You compare him to Andrew Jackson, there really is no comparison: he loved to read.


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Feb 17, 2012 07:30am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Six

The Satires of Juvenal JuvenalJuvenal

The History of America. by William Robertson, ... Volume 1 of 2William P. Robertson

Plautus The ComediesPlautus

The Iliad HomerHomer


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Feb 21, 2012 08:06am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Seven

Marcus Fabius Quintilianus

Good Queen Anne Vindicated, and the Ingratitude, Insolence, &C. of Her Whig Ministry and the Allies Detected and Exposed, in the Beginning and Conduct Jonathan SwiftJonathan Swift

The History of England, Volume II, Part II Queen Anne (Illustrated Edition) (Dodo Press) Tobias SmollettTobias Smollett

Demosthenes


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Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Eight

The Lady of the Lake Walter ScottWalter Scott

PlutarchPlutarch


Laurence SterneLaurence Sterne


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Feb 29, 2012 11:59am

Bentley | 19381 comments Great job Bryan.


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Feb 29, 2012 12:00pm

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Thanks. A well read individual, you have to say.


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Mar 07, 2012 08:38am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Nine

Benjamin ConstantBenjamin Constant

Guy Mannering (Penguin Classics) Walter ScottWalter Scott

Tales of Fashionable Life Manoeuvring Maria EdgeworthMaria Edgeworth


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Mar 21, 2012 09:57am

Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Eleven

Memoirs of King George II The Yale Edition of Horace Walpole's Memoirs Horace WalpoleHorace Walpole

Don Juan George Gordon ByronGeorge Gordon Byron


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Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Thirteen

VoltaireVoltaire

Paradise Lost John MiltonJohn Milton


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Bryan Craig | 7641 comments Chapter Fourteen

Thomas Gray

History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the CatholicWilliam Hickling Prescott


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