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John Quincy Adams
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Robert Vincent Remini |
"Heavy were the burdens of John Quincy Adams's upbringing. Son of the forbidding John Adams and the domineering Abigail, puritanical New Englanders both, he was driven from the earliest age to a life… |
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America's first dynasty
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Richard Brookhiser |
"The Adams family saga satisfies our curiosity about famous figures, which is part gossip a venerable genre, from Suetonius to People part identification," writes Brookhiser in his introduction to th… |
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Young John Quincy
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Cheryl Harness |
Presents the events leading up to the Declaration of Independence as seen through the eyes of the boy who would grow up to be the sixth president of the United States. |
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The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics
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William J. Cooper |
526 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : 25 cm |
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Nation builder
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Charles N. Edel |
America's rise from a confederation of revolutionary colonies to a world power is often seen as inevitable, but Charles N. Edel's provocative biography argues that Adams served as the central archite… |
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