The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams
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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

  1. 542 pages
  2. English
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The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams

About this book

A patriot by birth, John Quincy Adams's destiny was foreordained. He was not only "The Greatest Traveler of His Age," but his country's most gifted linguist and most experienced diplomat. John Quincy's world encompassed the American Revolution, the War of 1812, and the early and late Napoleonic Age. As his diplomat father's adolescent clerk and secretary, he met everyone who was anyone in Europe, including America's own luminaries and founding fathers, Franklin and Jefferson. All this made coming back to America a great challenge. But though he was determined to make his own career he was soon embarked, at Washington's appointment, on his phenomenal work abroad, as well as on a deeply troubled though loving and enduring marriage. But through all the emotional turmoil, he dedicated his life to serving his country. At 50, he returned to America to serve as Secretary of State to President Monroe. He was inaugurated President in 1824, after which he served as a stirring defender of the slaves of the Amistad rebellion and as a member of the House of Representatives from 1831 until his death in 1848. In The Remarkable Education of John Quincy Adams, Phyllis Lee Levin provides the deeply researched and beautifully written definitive biography of one of the most fascinating and towering early Americans.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Notice
  4. Dedication
  5. A. Adams Epigraph
  6. Contents
  7. Introduction
  8. Part I
  9. 1 “A Legacy More Valuable than Gold or Silver”
  10. 2 “A Great Deal of Room for Me to Grow Better”
  11. 3 “Some Compensation for My Not Being with My Friends at Braintree”
  12. 4 A Journal
  13. 5 “Almost at the World’s End”
  14. 6 “Promise to Produce a Worthy Character”
  15. 7 “A Son Who Is the Greatest Traveller of His Age”
  16. 8 “A Sister Who Fulfills My Most Sanguine Expectations”
  17. 9 “Your Ever Affectionate Brother”
  18. 10 “The Sentiments of My Heart as They Rise”
  19. 11 “Study Is My Mistress”
  20. 12 “A Student in the Office of Theophilus Parsons”
  21. 13 “Exposed to the Perils of Sentiment”
  22. 14 “On the Bridge between Wisdom and Folly”
  23. 15 “I, Too, Am a Scribbler”
  24. 16 “The Times Change and We Change with Them”
  25. Part II
  26. 17 “The Magnitude of the Trust and My Own Incompetency”
  27. 18 “The Usual Mixture between Sweet and Bitter”
  28. 19 “The Age of Innocence and Thoughtlessness”
  29. 20 “Albeit Unused to the Melting Mood”
  30. 21 “Oh My Louisa!”
  31. 22 “For the Friend of Your Life”
  32. 23 “Wise and in the Best Interests of the Country”
  33. Part III
  34. 24 “To Turn Weariness Itself into Pleasure”
  35. 25 “Painful Retrospection”
  36. 26 “No Small Difficulty”
  37. 27 “Another Feather against a Whirlwind”
  38. 28 “Like a Fish Out of Water”
  39. 29 “Apostasy”
  40. Part IV
  41. 30 “In Honorable Diplomatic Exile”
  42. 31 “Whether of Peace or War”
  43. Afterword
  44. Acknowledgments
  45. Notes
  46. Bibliography
  47. Index
  48. Illustrations
  49. About the Author
  50. Copyright