A portrait of the early nineteenth-century president documents his career with the House of Representatives, efforts to create a consolidated national government, role as a diplomat, contributions to foreign policy, and antislavery campaigns.
In this concise biography, Parsons masterfully chronicles the dramatic and prolific career of one of America's most absorbing figures.
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams, Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
“There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . [Kaplan is] a master historian and biographer.
A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures.
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker’s chamber.
Primarily a selection of correspondence by Adams.
“about the monstrous union between Clay & Adams." Martin Van Buren was thunderstruck. If you do this, he told a Kentucky representative, “you sign Mr. Clay's political death warrant. He will never become President be your motives as ...
John Quincy Adams would not question the stars; he always accepted, perhaps all too readily, the tyranny of “must.” In mid-May he boarded a carriage for the Breton seaport of L'Orient, “with such feelings as no one that has not been ...
His funeral evoked the greatest public outpouring since Benjamin Franklin's death. Mr. Adams's Last Crusade will enlighten and delight anyone interested in American history.