He was born in 1767, a subject of the British Empire, and died in
1848, a citizen of the United States and a member of Congress in
company with Abraham Lincoln. In his dramatic career he had known
George Washington and Benjamiin Franklin, La Fayette of France,
Alexander I of Russia, and Castlereagh of Great Britain. He had
both collaborated and quarrelled with Thomas Jefferson, Andrew
Jackson, Henry Clay, John C. Calhoun, and Daniel Webster. In his
lifetime Americans had fought for and established their
independence, adopted a Constitution, fought two wars with Great
Britain and one with Mexico. They had expanded south to the Rio
Grande and west to the Pacific. At the time of his death, Adams was
seen as a living connection between the present and past of the
young republic and his passing severed one of the nation's last
ties with its founding generation. As son of the second president
of the United States, father of the minister to the Court of St.
James, and grandfather to author Henry Adams, John Quincy Adams was
part of an American dynasty. In his own career as secretary of
state, President, senator, and congressman, Adams was as an actor
in some of the most dramatic events of the nineteenth century. In
this concise biography, Lynn Hudson Parsons masterfully chronicles
the life of one of America's most absorbing figures. From the day
in 1778 when, as a boy, he accompanied his father on a diplomatic
mission to France, to his last years as an eloquent , cantankerous
opponent of this country's foreign and domestic policies, Adams was
rarely detached from public affairs. And yet, this biography
reveals Adams as a man never truly at home anywhere-in Washington
he was stubborn and reclusive, in Europe he was a phlegmatic
ideologue, a bulldog among spaniels. His story parallels America's
own.
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