Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John
Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame
have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White
House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his
administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption"
and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West
Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote strong
Pan-American relationships, and the enactment of the "tariff of
abominations." Some analysts have even argued that it generated the
sectionalism which terminated the "Era of Good Feelings."
Mary Hargreaves contends, instead, that the basic effort of
Adams's presidency was to harmonize divergent sectional interests.
To ignore the Adams administration's commitment to nationalism, she
argues, is to overlook a fundamental stage in the establishment of
the federal government as guardian of the general interest.
The volume contains new information on the development of United
States commercial policy, the nation's early relationships with
Latin America, and difficulties of local and regional adjustment to
the growth of the national economy. It will be of keen interest to
all students of the economic and political history of the early
national period.
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