John Quincy Adams (American Profiles)
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| Rating | : | 4.69 (783 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0945612591 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 272 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-01-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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Parsons' book should immediately take its place as the best one-volume biography of this great American. It is as engaging to read as it is useful and provocative. (Walter LaFeber)Lynn H. (Richard Samuelson Claremont Review of Books)A beautifully written, well-balanced, and complete biography. Parsons, who has been working on Adams for many years, provides a very readable general biography. Thorough, fair, and authentic, this full-scale biography is written with grace and clarity. (Richard Alan Ryerson, editor in chief, The Adams Papers)Lynn Parsons has ventured into the daunting record left by John Quincy Adams and reproduced a remarkable portrait of Adams and his times. (Edith Gelles, author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams)John Quincy Adams continues to be ranked as our greatest of all secretaries of state, and Lynn Hudson Parsons has given us a superb, succinct,
Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was part of an American dynasty. They had expanded south to the Rio Grande and west to the Pacific. At the time of his death, Adams was seen as a living connection between the present and past of the young republic and his passing severed one of the nation's last ties with its founding generation.As son of the second president of the United States, father of the minister to the Court of St. And yet, this biography reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywherein Washington he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. In his own career as secretary of state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was as an actor in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century.In this concise biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons masterfully chronicles the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. In his lifetime Americans had fought for and established their independence, adopted a Constitution, fought two wars with Great Britain and one with Mexico. From the day in 1778 when, as a boy, he accompanied his father on a diplomatic mission to France, to his las
. He is author of several articles on John Quincy Adams and his family, and compiler of John Quincy Adams: A Bibliography. Lynn Hudson Parsons is professor of history at State University of New York College at Brockport
Good bio on America's greatest secretary of state Parsons does a fine job in explaining the life and goals of John Quincy Adams. He writes well and moves the book along.In some areas I would have liked more explanation or greater detail, including the failure of JQA's presidency, but Parsons thankfully avoids getting bogged down as many biographers do. Nor does he skirt the ex-president's interesting career as a congressman after he left the White House. (There are several other books that explore that part of JQA's life more thoro. backstage reader said A highly recommended, easy reading bio of the 6th President. Lynn H. Parsons has written a biography that is blessedly free from 'academic speak' or the sense that he is only writing for other historians. This is definitely a biography for even the most casual lover of history. Parsons' familiarity with JQA allows him to introduce us to that prickly character as one would introduce an eccentric friend--always aware of the eccentricities but never apologizing for them. Adams (and his father) are two of the greatest of America's early statesmen. "Five Stars" according to holly glickler. One of the most interesting presidents in American history, this book definitely gives Quincy his due.