Record details

• ISBN: 9781595555410
• ISBN: 1595555412
• Physical Description: print
  x, 502 pages, 8 unnumbered pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
• Publisher: Nashville : Thomas Nelson, [2013]

Content descriptions

Bibliography, etc. Note:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 452-491) and index.

Formatted Contents Note:

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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Adams, John Quincy 1767-1848

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Diplomats United States Biography

Presidents United States Biography

Presidents' spouses United States Biography

United States History War of 1812 Biography

United States History War of 1812 Diplomatic history

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Russia Foreign relations United States

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Biographies.