John Quincy Adams: Yankee NationalistNova Publishers, 2006 - 196 頁 By the standards that historians usually use to judge presidents, John Quincy Adams was a failure. Although better qualified for the office than any American of his generation, he served for only one term and was unable to accomplish any of the most cherished goals set forth so boldly at the beginning of his presidency. His election to the presidency in 1824 was itself fraught with controversy and charges of political corruption and he was soundly defeated in his bid for re-election by Andrew Jackson. To many contemporaries and even some historians, Adams has appeared completely out of touch with the democratic revolution that was transforming American life at the time. He seemed a relic of a discredited, eighteenth-century political world. Yet John Quincy Adams has not shared the fate of other presidential failures who have faded almost entirely from the national memory. |
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A True New England Man and an American John Quincy Adams and American Public Life 17901817 | 25 |
The United States and North America Are Identical Adams at the State Department 18171824 | 59 |
The Sun of My Political Life Sets in the Deepest Gloom Adams Broken Presidency 18251829 | 91 |
I Have More to Say Hereafter Congressman John Quincy Adams and the Union 18291845 | 125 |
I Struggle to Keep My Head Above Flood Final Struggles For Freedom and Progress 18451848 | 157 |
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