{"product_id":"john-quincy-adams-a-public-life-a-private-life","title":"John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life","description":"\u003cbody\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eTitle: \u003c\/b\u003eJohn Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor: \u003c\/b\u003ePaul C. Nagel\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN: \u003c\/b\u003e9780674479401\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher: \u003c\/b\u003eHarvard University Press\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished: \u003c\/b\u003e1999\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding: \u003c\/b\u003ePaperback\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage: \u003c\/b\u003eEnglish\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNumber of Pages: \u003c\/b\u003e466\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Note: \u003c\/b\u003eClean, unmarked copy with some edge wear. Good binding. Dust jacket included if issued with one. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher Description: \u003c\/b\u003eNagel probes deeply into the psyche of this cantankerous, misanthropic, erudite, hardworking son of a former president whose remarkable career spanned many offices: minister to Holland, Russia, and England, U.S. senator, secretary of state, president of the United States (1825-1829), and, finally, U.S. representative (the only ex-president to serve in the House). On the basis of a thorough study of Adams' seventy-year diary among a host of other documents, the author gives us a richer account than we have yet had of JQAs life - his passionate marriage to Louisa Johnson, his personal tragedies (two sons lost to alcoholism), his brilliant diplomacy, his recurring depression, his exasperating behavior - and shows us why in the end, only Abraham Lincoln's death evoked a greater outpouring of national sorrow in nineteenth-century America. We come to see how much Adams disliked politics and hoped for more from life than high office; how he sought distinction in literary and scientific endeavors, and drew his greatest pleasure from being a poet, critic, translator, essayist, botanist, and professor of oratory at Harvard; how tension between the public and private Adams vexed his life; and how his frustrations kept him masked and aloof (and unpopular).\u003c\/body\u003e","brand":"Harvard University Press","offers":[{"title":"John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life | Paul C. Nagel | Paperback | 9780674479401 | Used: Very Good | Biography 1606881","offer_id":50678054191362,"sku":"1606881","price":26.72,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0609\/3327\/5906\/files\/61YqPm6qrkL.jpg?v=1791360484","url":"https:\/\/boswellsbooks.com\/products\/john-quincy-adams-a-public-life-a-private-life","provider":"Boswell's Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}