If John Quincy Adams had retired after his service in the ... His victory in the bitter election of 1824 led to a presidency uniformly considered a failure. The historian Allan Nevins, raised ...

Randall Woods joins a distinguished group of biographers, including Samuel Flagg Bemis, Fred Kaplan, and Phyllis Lee Levin, who have developed a profound understanding of the pivotal presidency of ...

Few presidents have been as intelligent and eclectically versed as John Quincy Adams ... as the “Father of American Astronomy.” Before Adams, many Founding Fathers were knowledgeable and ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy ... Yet Adams was a revolutionary long before ...

Adams once predicted ... In 1841, long after he had left the presidency and while he was serving in Congress, John Quincy made a historic stand when he argued before the Supreme Court on ...

When he was young, John Quincy Adams ... Andrew Jackson defeated Adams, who retired with his wife Louisa to his hometown of Quincy, Massachusetts. Of his presidency, Adams said, “I can ...

This august cast of memorable heroes and villains nevertheless leaves little room for lesser characters such as John Quincy Adams. Adams’s single term as president, from 1825 to 1829 ...

Book Review: 'John Quincy Adams' Gives the Sixth President's Life ... This includes his post-presidency years in Congress where he became an ally — albeit a tenuous one — of abolitionists ...

When John Quincy Adams left the White House after his defeat in the election of 1828, he thought his public life had ended. His wife, Louisa Catherine Adams, welcomed the change because she ...

Perhaps the clearest examples of distinguished public careers taking a back seat to a mixed legacy as president are those of John and John Quincy ... Yet Adams was a revolutionary long before ...