John Quincy Adams

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00 - Preface
4:57
01 - Chapter 1A
21:00
02 - Chapter 1B
23:11
03 - Chapter 1C
25:34
04 - Chapter 1D
35:30
05 - Chapter 1E
22:25
06 - Chapter 1F
22:44
07 - Chapter 2A
27:02
08 - Chapter 2B
30:18
09 - Chapter 2C
30:50
10 - Chapter 2D
28:25
11 - Chapter 2E
25:30
12 - Chapter 2F
25:52
13 - Chapter 3A
26:24
14 - Chapter 3B
23:31
15 - Chapter 3C
26:30
16 - Chapter 3D
19:47
17 - Chapter 3E
31:29

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As a boy near Boston, John Quincy Adams watches conflict with his mother and carries news between the city and the family farm. John T. Morse begins his biography with these early encounters with public affairs, then includes a letter in which the young Adams asks his father for help balancing study and play. A voyage to Paris with his father brings diplomacy into his childhood experience.

Morse follows Adams through diplomatic service, the presidency and the House of Representatives. His portrait links strong principles and independence with a severe manner that brought personal unpopularity. Accusations involving Adams and Clay spread through political repetition, showing how public suspicion can persist. The biography offers readers of American history a study of character alongside the struggles of government. Its attention to reputation, political loyalty and standards of conduct makes those struggles part of the account of a public life.