The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics

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Author	:	William J. Cooper
Rating	:	4.23 (750 Votes)
Asin	:	B06XJS6GSV
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Number of Pages	:	198 Pages
Publish Date	:	2015-07-19
Language	:	English

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A Boyd Professor Emeritus of History at Louisiana State University, he lives in Atlanta, Georgia. William J. . Cooper is the author of Jefferson Davis, American, which won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and We Have the War Upon Us

Why has John Quincy Adams been largely written out of American history when he is, in fact, our lost Founding Father?Long relegated to the sidelines of history as the hyperintellectual son of John and Abigail Adams, John Quincy Adams (1767–1848), has never basked in the historical spotlight. Ironically, Adams’s death and the extraordinary obsequies produced an outpouring of national, and bipartisan, grief never before seen in the nineteenth century, as if the country had truly lost its last Founding Father.Now, in another fractious age, the courageous life of John Quincy Adams suddenly takes on renewed vigor and meaning, as William J. As Cooper demonstrates, no one else in his generation—not Clay, Webster, Calhoun, or Jackson—ever experienced Europe as young Adams did, who at fourteen translated from French at the court of Cathe

Cooper here brilliantly balances a perceptive portrait of John Quincy Adams’s personal life and character…with an astute and compelling analysis of his decades-long public career. Cooper gives us a vivid and convincing account of one of the most significantbut too often overlookedfigures in our history. Long obscured by the towering shadow of his father’s generation on one side and by Andrew Jackson on the other, our sixth president merits more study and credit. William Cooper’s well-crafted life of John Quincy Adams, a learned and well-trained president with a conscience touching the moral questions of his day, admirably fits that bill.” - William McFeely, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Grant: A Biography“John Quincy Adams was a world traveler and full-throated nationalist, primed from youth for a life in politics. “In th