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Product Identifiers
Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674479408
ISBN-13
9780674479401
eBay Product ID (ePID)
497150
Product Key Features
Book Title
John Quincy Adams : a Public Life, a Private Life
Number of Pages
466 Pages
Language
English
Topic
General, Presidents & Heads of State
Publication Year
1999
Illustrator
Yes
Genre
Biography & Autobiography
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
0.1 in
Item Weight
13 Oz
Item Length
0.9 in
Item Width
0.6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Reviews
Paul C. Nagel focuses on the sources of Adams's curious mixture of duty and defiance...It is the character of the man, his personality, that dominates this biography...Nagel has given us a John Quincy Adams with a heart as well as a head., Nagel offers a rich portrait of the moody and anxiety-ridden Adams...This biography remov[es] the dust from his portrait and restor[es] the glow of historical significance to his splendid and troubled life., Nagel has set out to explore his hero's inner life...It is a story told largely from the vantage point of the subject., Nagel clearly knows his topic inside out, and his account of Adam's eventful life--from diplomat to professor to President--is eminently readable...This book is thoroughly engaging. We glimpse a side of Adams that he preferred to keep private: his eye for the ladies, his self-lacerating depressions, his contempt for what he referred to as the 'crazy' orations of Ralph Waldo Emerson...What emerges from Nagel's book is a more fully rounded character.
Dewey Edition
21
Dewey Decimal
973.5/5/092 B
Synopsis
Adams was raised, educated, and groomed to be President. 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., 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.
LC Classification Number
E377
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- o***o (267)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseitem was exactly as described, but no thanks to the USPS for the two week delivery time for an item that was going less than 100 miles away. Seller gets a grade of AAA+++Sneaky Pete Pool Cue 18.5oz Unmarked (#306150744202)
- m***8 (62)- Feedback left by buyer.Past 6 monthsVerified purchaseCruise book shipped quickly, and well packaged. Item was in great shape, and as described. Thank you, no if you only have some of my other missing deployments I would buy more! Will shop again with you!
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