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The Problem of Democracy - The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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The Problem of Democracy - The Presidents Adams Confront the Cult of Personality (Large print, Paperback, Large type / large print edition)
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"Told with authority and style. . . Crisply summarizing the
Adamses' legacy, the authors stress principle over
partisanship."--The Wall Street Journal How the father and son
presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought
those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy,
from the New York Times bestselling author of White Trash. John and
John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth-tellers,
too uncensored for their own political good. They held that
political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek
popularity (it showed). They lamented the fact that hero worship in
America substituted idolatry for results; and they made it clear
that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington,
Thomas Jefferson, and Andrew Jackson. When John Adams succeeded
George Washington as President, his son had already followed him
into public service and was stationed in Europe as a diplomat.
Though they spent many years apart--and as their careers spanned
Europe, Washington DC, and their family home south of Boston--they
maintained a close bond through extensive letter writing, debating
history, political philosophy, and partisan maneuvering. The
problem of democracy is an urgent problem; the father-and-son
presidents grasped the perilous psychology of politics and forecast
what future generations would have to contend with: citizens
wanting heroes to worship and covetous elites more than willing to
mislead. Rejection at the polls, each after one term, does not
prove that the presidents Adams had erroneous ideas.
Intellectually, they were what we today call "independents,"
reluctant to commit blindly to an organized political party. No
historian has attempted to dissect their intertwined lives as Nancy
Isenberg and Andrew Burstein do in these pages, and there is no
better time than the present to learn from the American nation's
most insightful malcontents.
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