The Best Biographies of John Quincy Adams
[Updated] In every respect, John Quincy Adams’s life was made for a great novel or movie…or even a good biography. …
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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 …
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 …
The Best Biographies of James Monroe
[Updated] James Monroe was the first of the earliest presidents to capture the presidency without an obvious tailwind assisting his …
Review of “The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness” by Harlow Unger
“The Last Founding Father: James Monroe and a Nation’s Call to Greatness” is one of the most recent of author …
Next Up: James Monroe
James Monroe was our fifth president, and the fourth from Virginia. I knew virtually nothing of him before I began …
My Journey Through the Best Presidential Biographies 