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What is the best biography on John Quincy Adams?

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In every respect, John Quincy Adams's life was made for a great novel, or movie...or even a good biography. At age ten, John Quincy had his first opportunity to travel to Europe with his father (a diplomat in Paris) and begin a youth filled with foreign affairs, multiple languages and new customs. read more

“John Quincy Adams” by Harlow Unger is the most recently-published of my John Quincy Adams biographies. Without a doubt, Unger’s biography is the most “efficient” of the four as it covers Adams’s entire life (with some “extra” context-setting American history thrown in for good measure) in the fewest pages. read more

Chosen by the House of Representatives after an inconclusive election against Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams often failed to mesh with the ethos of his era, pushing unsuccessfully for a strong, consolidated national government. read more

* Of all the biographies of Adams I read, “John Adams: A Life” by John Ferling is the best biography (if just by a hair). It provides the perfect balance of pure insight and analysis, readability, length, and hard fact versus colorful interpretation. read more

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