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John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit

Traub, James

Paperback

Historical FiguresPolitical BiographiesPresidents & Heads of State

Publisher Price: $24.99

ISBN10: 0465093833
ISBN13: 9780465093830
Publisher: Basic Books
Published: Oct 10 2017
Pages: 656
Weight: 1.41
Height: 1.80 Width: 5.90 Depth: 8.90
Language: English
A penetrating, lyrical biography of John Quincy Adams, the president and politician whose experiences spanned--and shaped--the most critical period in our nation's history.

A splendid new biography .... Reliably thorough, blissfully bereft of jargon, and nicely paced.―New York Times Book Review

Few figures in American history have held as many roles in public life as John Quincy Adams. The son of John Adams, he was a brilliant ambassador and secretary of state, a frustrated president, and a dedicated congressman who staunchly opposed slavery.

In John Quincy Adams, scholar and journalist James Traub draws on Adams's diaries, letters, and writings to evoke his numerous achievements-and failures-in office. A man of unwavering moral convictions, Adams is the father of foreign policy realism and one of the first proponents of the activist government. But John Quincy Adams is first and foremost the story of a brilliant, flinty, and unyielding man whose life exemplified admirable political courage.

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