The Best Biographies of John Quincy Adams

September 27, 2013

[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

September 25, 2013

“John Quincy Adams” is author and historian Harlow Unger’s most recently published biography. Among his nearly two dozen books, Unger …

July 16, 2013

I first “met” John Quincy Adams as a precocious youngster traveling the world with his father, John Adams, who early in …

July 13, 2013

[Updated] James Monroe was the first of the earliest presidents to capture the presidency without an obvious tailwind assisting his …

July 11, 2013

“The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness” is one of the most recent of author …

June 17, 2013

James Monroe was our fifth president, and the fourth from Virginia. I knew virtually nothing of him before I began …