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John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life

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Availability:In StockContributor:Paul C. NagelPublish date:1999-04-15Pages:466
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674479401ISBN-10:674479408UPC:9780674479401Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, PoliticalSize:9.21 x 6.18 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCDV0WTRZN
John Quincy Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President, following in the footsteps of his father, John. At fourteen he was secretary to the Minister to Russia and, later, was himself Minister to the Netherlands and Prussia. He was U.S. Senator, Secretary of State, and then President for one ill-fated term. His private life showed a parallel descent. He was a poet, writer, critic, and Professor of Oratory at Harvard. He married a talented and engaging Southerner, but two of his three sons were disappointments. This polymath and troubled man, caught up in both a democratic age not to his understanding and the furies of passion, was an American lion in winter.
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harvard University PressISBN-13:9780674479401ISBN-10:674479408UPC:9780674479401Book Category:Biography & AutobiographyBook Subcategory:Presidents & Heads of State, PoliticalSize:9.21 x 6.18 x 1.15 inchesWeight:1.4705Product ID:SCDV0WTRZN
Nagel, Paul C.: - Paul C. Nagel is former Director of the Virginia Historical Society, a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a cultural laureate of Virginia, and a contributing editor of American Heritage.
Publisher: Harvard University Press

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