Description: "Beautifully researched and written. . . . Biography fans, don't miss this one." - The Washingtonian, Best Books of the Month "As well-written, comprehensive, and satisfying account of Adams's personal life and career as we have seen in print." - The Washington Times "There is much to praise in this extensively researched book, which is certainly one of the finest biographies of a sadly underrated man. . . . These are the marks of a master historian and biographer." - Carol Berkin, The Washington Post "An engaging, well-crafted, and deeply researched biography that puts particular emphasis on John Quincy's rich life of the mind." - Susan Dunn, The New York Review of Books "In undertaking John Quincy Adams , Fred Kaplan. . . clearly is trying to do for the son what David McCullough did for the father. . . . It was a notable life, marked now by a notable biography." - The Boston Globe " John Quincy Adams should be required reading inside the Beltway. . . . Kaplan has penned a richly detailed canticle to his subject. . . . Kaplan's narrative is both riveting and brimming with telling details." - The Christian Science Monitor "Well-researched and well-written. . . . An admiring and admirable account." - The Wall Street Journal "Insightful and engrossing. . . . As Kaplan makes plain in his own clear and finely chiseled prose, John Quincy Adams was, at his core, a writer. . . . A fine biography." - Annette Gordon-Reed, The American Scholar "An exemplary portrait. . . . Kaplan is accomplished at the art of biography." - Louis P. Masur, The Los Angeles Review of Books "Kaplan has produced a full-length narrative of this remarkable life, rendered in lucid and loving prose. . . . Kaplan rightly portrays Adams as a man ahead of his time. . . . A valuable book about an important American figure." - Robert W. Merry, The New York Times Book Review

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