John Quincy Adams

A Public Life, a Private Life

Auteur Paul C. Nagel

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ISBN

9780674479401

Bindwijze

Paperback

Taal

Engels

Auteur

Paul C. Nagel

Uitgeverij

Harvard University Press

Jaar van uitgifte

1999

Aantal pagina’s

466

Waar gaat het over?

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.

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