Discusses the personal life and political career of the son of the second president of the United States, who became the sixth president. Includes Internet links to Web sites, source documents, and photographs related to John Quincy Adams.
February 21, 1848, the House of Representatives, Washington D.C.: Congressman John Quincy Adams, rising to speak, suddenly collapses at his desk; two days later, he dies in the Speaker’s chamber.
But Charles N. Edel’s provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War–era ...
A magisterial biography and a sweeping panorama of American history from the Washington to Lincoln eras, Unger's John Quincy Adams follows one of America's most important yet least-known figures.
In this concise biography, Parsons masterfully chronicles the dramatic and prolific career of one of America's most absorbing figures.
The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature.
Memoirs of John Quincy Adams: Comprising Portions of His Diary from 1795 to 1848
Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service...
A middle-aged widower, Eaton had recently married Margaret O'Neale Timberlake, the daughter of a Washington tavern keeper. Her first marriage had been to a ...
Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams, and the Election of 1828 Lynn H. Parsons. 59. 60. 61. ... Mark H. Haller, “The Rise of the Jackson Party in Maryland, 1820–1829,” Journal of Southern History 28 (August 1962): 307–26; Edwin A. Miles, ...
This book is a brilliant portrait of a remarkable man and his age. Most defeated ex-presidents disappear from public life soon after their presidencies. John Quincy Adams was an exception:...