Review of “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” by Randall Woods
Randall Wood’s biography “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” was published this summer. Woods is a Distinguished …
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Review of “The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics” by William J. Cooper
“The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics” by William J. Cooper was published in …
Review of “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary” by Fred Kaplan
Fred Kaplan’s 2014 “John Quincy Adams: American Visionary” is one of the most recent and comprehensive biographies of the sixth …
Review of “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” by James Traub
James Traub’s “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” was published in 2016, about three years after I read four other biographies …
The Best Biographies of John Quincy Adams
[Updated Oct 2024] In every respect, John Quincy Adams’s life was made for a great novel or movie…or even a …
Review of “John Quincy Adams” by Harlow Unger
“John Quincy Adams” is author and historian Harlow Unger’s most recently published biography. Among his nearly two dozen books, Unger …
Review of “Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade” by Joseph Wheelan
“Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade: John Quincy Adams’s Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in Congress” is author Joseph Wheelan’s 2008 biography of our …
Review of “John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life” by Paul Nagel
“John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, A Private Life” by Paul Nagel was published in 1997 and represents the first …
Review of “John Quincy Adams” by Marie B. Hecht
“John Quincy Adams: A Personal History of an Independent Man” by Marie B. Hecht was published in 1972. Her biography …
Introducing…John Quincy Adams
I first “met” John Quincy Adams as a precocious youngster traveling the world with his father, John Adams, who early in …
My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies 