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John Quincy Adams : A Public Life, a Private Life by Paul C. Nagel (1999, Trade Paperback)

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Product Description : 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 US Senator Secretary of State and then President for one illfated 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