John Quincy Adams

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In this concise biography, Parsons masterfully chronicles the dramatic and prolific career of one of America's most absorbing figures.

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John Quincy Adams is a beautifully written, well-balanced, and remarkably complete biography of Adams. Its lively account of his long career as diplomat, senator, president, and congressman, and as scholar, poet, and patron of science should make clear to every American his prominent and then commanding role in the first seven decades of this nation's life. Parsons' book should immediately take its place as the best one-volume biography of this great American. -- Richard Alan Ryerson, editor in chief, The Adams Papers
Lynn Parsons has ventured into the daunting record left by John Quincy Adams and reproduced a remarkable portrait of Adams and his times. Thorough, fair, and authentic, this full-scale biography is written with grace and clarity. It is as engaging to read as it is useful and provocative. -- Edith Gelles, author of Portia: The World of Abigail Adams
John Quincy Adams continues to be ranked as our greatest of all secretaries of state, and Lynn Hudson Parsons has given us a superb, succinct, engagingly written biography that not only tells us about this incredible person, but about his America as it became modernized politically and economicallyand as it, and he, became increasingly haunted by the specter of slavery. -- Walter LaFeber
Lynn H. Parsons, who has been working on Adams for many years, provides a very readable general biography. -- Richard Samuelson * Claremont Review of Books *
A beautifully written, well-balanced, and complete biography. -- Richard Alan Ryerson, editor-in-chief, The Adams Papers

Author Bio

Lynn Hudson Parsons is professor of history at State University of New York College at Brockport. He is author of several articles on John Quincy Adams and his family, and compiler of John Quincy Adams: A Bibliography.