John Quincy Adams by Fred Kaplan
A richly detailed biography that reexamines a towering but misunderstood statesman, tracing his transformation from precocious diplomat and architect of early American foreign policy into a deeply principled, if politically isolated, president and later a vigorous anti-slavery congressman; it emphasizes his intellectual rigor, moral convictions, mastery of diplomacy and law, and the contradictions that made him admired by some and reviled by others, arguing that his lifelong commitment to national greatness, human rights, and constitutional principle marks him as an unusually forward-looking figure in early American history.
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