John Quincy Adams: American visionary [First edition] 9780061915413, 9780062199324, 0061915416, 9780061915420, 0061915424

In this biography, Fred Kaplan brings into focus the dramatic life of John Quincy Adams--the little-known and much-misun

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English Pages xii, 652 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), color map ; 24 cm Year 2015

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John Quincy Adams: American visionary [First edition]
 9780061915413, 9780062199324, 0061915416, 9780061915420, 0061915424

Table of contents :
Hooks of steel, 1767-1778 --
A European education, 1778-1783 --
Slow voyage home, 1783-1787 --
Most beautiful and beloved, 1787-1794 --
Remember your characters, 1794-1797 --
Begin anew the world, 1797-1801 --
The white worm, 1801-1804 --
Fiery ordeal, 1805-1808 --
Paradise of fools, 1809-1814 --
My wandering life, 1814-1817 --
The terrible sublime, 1817-1821 --
The Macbeth policy, 1821-1825 --
No bed of roses, 1825-1829 --
The uses of adversity, 1829-1833 --
A suitable sphere of action, 1834-1839 --
Adhering to the world, 1839-1843 --
The summit of my ambition, 1844-1848.

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