The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy AdamsOxford University Press, 1986 - 245 páginas This book is a brilliant portrait of a remarkable man and his age. Most defeated ex-presidents disappear from public life soon after their presidencies. John Quincy Adams was an exception: two years after losing the election of 1828 to Andrew Jackson, he ran for the House of Represnetatives and served there until his death seventeen years later. During his spectacular congressional career, Adams became a folk hero in much of the North, hailed by some as "Old Man Eloquent", by others as "the conscience of New England" and by still others as a "bruiser" who loved a good fight. He was feared in the South and regarded by many as a traitor and "the archest enemy of slavery that ever existed". His enemies included most of the great names of his day--men such as Andrew Jackson, Daniel Webster, and John C. Calhoun. But he had allies too, and with their support, he savaged congressmen and presidents who wanted to gut the tariff, silence the antislavery movement, take lands from Indians, annex Texas, make war against Mexico, and add a covey of slave states to the Union. Sometimes he won, often he lost, but, win or lose, he and his cohorts were a vital force in the turbulent politics of the day. This book is partly a vivid character portrait of a famous curmudgeon, but it is also a knowledgeable, dramatic study of congressional politics in the 1830s and 1840s. Obsessed by the slavery issue, Adams was given poor marks as a political analyst by most twentieth-century scholars. With a new perspective on the times, historians now wonder if he was more right than wrong. |
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... desire to read more . He preferred to rely on ancient homilies and his own instincts.5 Particularly in the dark when it came to money and banking , two of the biggest issues of the day , he did nothing to rectify his lack of knowledge ...
... desire to read more . He preferred to rely on ancient homilies and his own instincts.5 Particularly in the dark when it came to money and banking , two of the biggest issues of the day , he did nothing to rectify his lack of knowledge ...
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... desire to fight the President on this issue . Never sharing the Hamiltonian view that a well - funded debt had advantages , he basically agreed with Jackson that it was bad morally and practically for the country to be in debt . Hence ...
... desire to fight the President on this issue . Never sharing the Hamiltonian view that a well - funded debt had advantages , he basically agreed with Jackson that it was bad morally and practically for the country to be in debt . Hence ...
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... desire whatsoever to push annexation . His cardinal rule was to maintain party harmony at all costs . The true policy of the party , he argued , was to avoid any issue that threatened the unity of northern and southern Democrats . The ...
... desire whatsoever to push annexation . His cardinal rule was to maintain party harmony at all costs . The true policy of the party , he argued , was to avoid any issue that threatened the unity of northern and southern Democrats . The ...
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The Road to Seat No 203 | 3 |
Adams and Democracy | 27 |
Guardian of the Future | 55 |
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The Life and Times of Congressman John Quincy Adams Leonard L. Richards Sin vista previa disponible - 1988 |
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Antislavery Politics in Antebellum and Civil War America Thomas G. Mitchell Sin vista previa disponible - 2007 |