Book Review: John Quincy Adams by Harlow Giles Unger

[kensmind]

In his last book (about President James Monroe), author Harlow Giles Unger was accused by critics of a sort of sycophantic hero worship resulting in a loss of objectivity about his subject. He apparently paid attention to that criticism, because in his recent biography of John Quincy Adams, the 6th President of the United States, (simply called

Comments

[mlledesade]

Sounds like an interesting book. I'm going to have to find a copy of it in a library.

[kensmind]

I hope you like it as much as I did. It's not terribly long (313 pages) either.

[seaivy]

JQA may be a man after my own heart.
I've got to find that book!
Thanks

[kensmind]

I was thinking of you as I was writing this. I think that you would enjoy this book because the author borrows much from diaries and letters to set out what the main subjects are thinking.