The Lost Founding Father: John Quincy Adams and the Transformation of American Politics + nemokamas atvežimas! | knygos.lt

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Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash
and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has
long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously
assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery
and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous
1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely
Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery. Now,
award-winning historian William J. Cooper insightfully demonstrates
that Adams should be considered our lost Founding
Father, his moral and political vision the final link to the great
visionaries who created our nation. With his heroic arguments
in the Amistad trial forever memorialized, a fearless Adams
stood strong against the Jacksonian tide, the Gag Rule, and the
expansion of slavery that would send the nation hurtling into
war. This game-changing biography reveals Adams to be one of
the most battered but courageous and inspirational politicians
in American history.