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<p><p>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.</p> <h3>publishers Weekly</h3> <p>with His Career Still On An Upward Trajectory And The Presidency Beckoning, Adams, Son Of The Second U.s. President, Needed, So He Acknowledged, To Repel A Reproach Which Has Been Very Assiduously Spread Abroad Of A Reserved, Gloomy, Unsocial Temper. Because He Appeared To Be Reserved, Cold, [and] Austere, It Was Easy For His Political Rivals To Portray Him As A Gloomy Misanthropist. How He Managed, Despite Wide Unpopularity, To Become The Sixth President Is An Absorbing Story

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Author

Nagel, Paul C.

Publisher

Harvard University, Department of Sanskrit & Indian Studies

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780674479401

Category

history

Subjects

History, Biography, Fiction

Rating

3.86 / 5 (77 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14