Review
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
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Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
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Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
"
Alan Taylor, author of "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"
In lucid prose and with canny insight, James Traub illuminates the life and political career of John Quincy Adams. Driven by grim purpose and consistent values, Adams was hard to love but demanded respect as he matured into a champion of liberty for all. Traub admires Adams tinged with sadness for the absence of his type in our own times.
Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
"
Sean Wilentz, author of "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln"
James Traub's new biography of John Quincy Adams is exceptionally strong. Adams was a complicated hero, a patrician visionary but also, as Traub puts it, a militant spirit, one of the most important diplomats in all of American history and, finally, slavery's greatest enemy in American politics. Traub does justice to both the man and his times, with a historian's sense of complexity and a writer's eye for drama and detail.
Kurt Andersen, author of "True Believers," host of "Studio 360"
Certainly by modern standards, John Quincy Adams doesn't seem like presidential material: all high seriousness and rectitude, uncompromising to a fault, precisely not a guy with whom you want to sit down and have a beer. But James Traub s beautifully written, absolutely definitive biography is a surprising page-turner that made me admire this other President Adams as he finally deserves to be admiredand to wonder if the species of American civic virtue he embodied, always rare, always endangered, has not become extinct.
Deborah Solomon, author of "American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell"
In the crowded pantheon of politically glamorous Adamses, John Quincy has long been overshadowed. Here he has finally been given his due. James Traub, one of America s most incisive journalists on foreign affairs, has crafted a moving biography of an unlikely hero a tense, introspective man who had no gift for small talk and felt beleaguered by criticism from members of Congress as well as his own three sons. By capturing Adams unflashy brilliance and do-the-right thing convictions, Traub convinces us that our sixth president is as worthy of our affection and gratitude as any before or after him.
Alan Taylor, author of "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"
In lucid prose and with canny insight, James Traub illuminates the life and political career of John Quincy Adams. Driven by grim purpose and consistent values, Adams was hard to love but demanded respect as he matured into a champion of liberty for all. Traub admires Adams tinged with sadness for the absence of his type in our own times.
Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity. "
"Kirkus"
Traub depicts a fully fleshed character, an extraordinary man driven by his birthright principles, a voluminous diarist, scholar, poet, polymath, eccentric, and iconoclast. The author also offers a masterly portrait of Adams wife, Louisa. An impassioned biography of a coherent and consistent thinker who adhered to his core political convictions across his decades of public service.
Sean Wilentz, author of "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln"
James Traub's new biography of John Quincy Adams is exceptionally strong. Adams was a complicated hero, a patrician visionary but also, as Traub puts it, a militant spirit, one of the most important diplomats in all of American history and, finally, slavery's greatest enemy in American politics. Traub does justice to both the man and his times, with a historian's sense of complexity and a writer's eye for drama and detail.
Kurt Andersen, author of "True Believers," host of "Studio 360"
Certainly by modern standards, John Quincy Adams doesn't seem like presidential material: all high seriousness and rectitude, uncompromising to a fault, precisely not a guy with whom you want to sit down and have a beer. But James Traub s beautifully written, absolutely definitive biography is a surprising page-turner that made me admire this other President Adams as he finally deserves to be admiredand to wonder if the species of American civic virtue he embodied, always rare, always endangered, has not become extinct.
Deborah Solomon, author of "American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell"
In the crowded pantheon of politically glamorous Adamses, John Quincy has long been overshadowed. Here he has finally been given his due. James Traub, one of America s most incisive journalists on foreign affairs, has crafted a moving biography of an unlikely hero a tense, introspective man who had no gift for small talk and felt beleaguered by criticism from members of Congress as well as his own three sons. By capturing Adams unflashy brilliance and do-the-right thing convictions, Traub convinces us that our sixth president is as worthy of our affection and gratitude as any before or after him.
Alan Taylor, author of "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"
In lucid prose and with canny insight, James Traub illuminates the life and political career of John Quincy Adams. Driven by grim purpose and consistent values, Adams was hard to love but demanded respect as he matured into a champion of liberty for all. Traub admires Adams tinged with sadness for the absence of his type in our own times.
Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
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"Library Journal"
Adams surfaces as an ambitious intellectual with deeply held convictions striving to hold his family together through illness, tragedy, and financial woes while relentlessly promoting a strong, active federal government as the young but rapidly expanding and diversifying nation grappled with geographic sectionalism and political partisanship.
"Booklist," Starred Review
Traub thoroughly, even quite engagingly, follows Adams through the years during which he served in the diplomatic corps, building up the reputation as the new republic s best representative abroad.
"Publishers Weekly," Starred Review
[An] essential biography of a complex man.... Traub shows that without imperiling national unity, Adams s persistent, perspicacious opposition to slavery shattered the overweening confidence of the South and confirmed his place in America s history.
"Kirkus"
Traub depicts a fully fleshed character, an extraordinary man driven by his birthright principles, a voluminous diarist, scholar, poet, polymath, eccentric, and iconoclast. The author also offers a masterly portrait of Adams wife, Louisa. An impassioned biography of a coherent and consistent thinker who adhered to his core political convictions across his decades of public service.
Sean Wilentz, author of "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln"
James Traub's new biography of John Quincy Adams is exceptionally strong. Adams was a complicated hero, a patrician visionary but also, as Traub puts it, a militant spirit, one of the most important diplomats in all of American history and, finally, slavery's greatest enemy in American politics. Traub does justice to both the man and his times, with a historian's sense of complexity and a writer's eye for drama and detail.
Kurt Andersen, author of "True Believers," host of "Studio 360"
Certainly by modern standards, John Quincy Adams doesn't seem like presidential material: all high seriousness and rectitude, uncompromising to a fault, precisely not a guy with whom you want to sit down and have a beer. But James Traub s beautifully written, absolutely definitive biography is a surprising page-turner that made me admire this other President Adams as he finally deserves to be admiredand to wonder if the species of American civic virtue he embodied, always rare, always endangered, has not become extinct.
Deborah Solomon, author of "American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell"
In the crowded pantheon of politically glamorous Adamses, John Quincy has long been overshadowed. Here he has finally been given his due. James Traub, one of America s most incisive journalists on foreign affairs, has crafted a moving biography of an unlikely hero a tense, introspective man who had no gift for small talk and felt beleaguered by criticism from members of Congress as well as his own three sons. By capturing Adams unflashy brilliance and do-the-right thing convictions, Traub convinces us that our sixth president is as worthy of our affection and gratitude as any before or after him.
Alan Taylor, author of "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"
In lucid prose and with canny insight, James Traub illuminates the life and political career of John Quincy Adams. Driven by grim purpose and consistent values, Adams was hard to love but demanded respect as he matured into a champion of liberty for all. Traub admires Adams tinged with sadness for the absence of his type in our own times.
Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity. "
"Wall Street Journal"
Penetrating, detailed and very readable... [a] splendid biography.
"New York Times Book Review, " Joseph J. Ellis
[A] splendid new biography.... Reliably thorough, blissfully bereft of jargon and nicely paced.
"Library Journal"
Adams surfaces as an ambitious intellectual with deeply held convictions striving to hold his family together through illness, tragedy, and financial woes while relentlessly promoting a strong, active federal government as the young but rapidly expanding and diversifying nation grappled with geographic sectionalism and political partisanship.
"Booklist," Starred Review
Traub thoroughly, even quite engagingly, follows Adams through the years during which he served in the diplomatic corps, building up the reputation as the new republic s best representative abroad.
"Publishers Weekly," Starred Review
[An] essential biography of a complex man.... Traub shows that without imperiling national unity, Adams s persistent, perspicacious opposition to slavery shattered the overweening confidence of the South and confirmed his place in America s history.
"Kirkus"
Traub depicts a fully fleshed character, an extraordinary man driven by his birthright principles, a voluminous diarist, scholar, poet, polymath, eccentric, and iconoclast. The author also offers a masterly portrait of Adams wife, Louisa. An impassioned biography of a coherent and consistent thinker who adhered to his core political convictions across his decades of public service.
"Shelf Awareness for Readers"
"John Quincy Adams" is a sharp portrait of the fascinating statesman who helped bring about the consolidation of the United States from fragile upstart into emerging major power. Traub s plentiful source material Adams kept a journal throughout most of his life reveals a complex man: a Puritan patrician, a genius diplomat, a villain to many and hero to a hopeful few, including the Amistad defendants. "John Quincy Adams" is a magnificent work.
CNN s "Fareed Zakaria GPS"
This week s book of the week is James Traub s biography of John Quincy Adams. By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable, the son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he s an obscure figure. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject.
"Open Letters Monthly"
[T]his is a fine addition to the newly-swelling ranks of JQA biographies, and one of the finest political lives to appear so far in 2016.
"Roanoke Times"
Traub s attention to small, sometimes seemingly insignificant, details creates a vivid picture of Adams, his family, his colleagues and adversaries, and the society in which he lived and worked.
Sean Wilentz, author of "The Rise of American Democracy: Jefferson to Lincoln"
James Traub's new biography of John Quincy Adams is exceptionally strong. Adams was a complicated hero, a patrician visionary but also, as Traub puts it, a militant spirit, one of the most important diplomats in all of American history and, finally, slavery's greatest enemy in American politics. Traub does justice to both the man and his times, with a historian's sense of complexity and a writer's eye for drama and detail.
Kurt Andersen, author of "True Believers," host of "Studio 360"
Certainly by modern standards, John Quincy Adams doesn't seem like presidential material: all high seriousness and rectitude, uncompromising to a fault, precisely not a guy with whom you want to sit down and have a beer. But James Traub s beautifully written, absolutely definitive biography is a surprising page-turner that made me admire this other President Adams as he finally deserves to be admiredand to wonder if the species of American civic virtue he embodied, always rare, always endangered, has not become extinct.
Deborah Solomon, author of "American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell"
In the crowded pantheon of politically glamorous Adamses, John Quincy has long been overshadowed. Here he has finally been given his due. James Traub, one of America s most incisive journalists on foreign affairs, has crafted a moving biography of an unlikely hero a tense, introspective man who had no gift for small talk and felt beleaguered by criticism from members of Congress as well as his own three sons. By capturing Adams unflashy brilliance and do-the-right thing convictions, Traub convinces us that our sixth president is as worthy of our affection and gratitude as any before or after him.
Alan Taylor, author of "The Internal Enemy: Slavery and War in Virginia, 1772-1832"
In lucid prose and with canny insight, James Traub illuminates the life and political career of John Quincy Adams. Driven by grim purpose and consistent values, Adams was hard to love but demanded respect as he matured into a champion of liberty for all. Traub admires Adams tinged with sadness for the absence of his type in our own times.
Fareed Zakaria, author of "The Post-American World"
By rights, John Quincy Adams should be one of America s most famous presidents. His life story is remarkable. The son of one of the nation s founding presidents, the only one to serve in an elected office after leaving the White House, and a man of vast intelligence and even greater political courage who died while debating in the House of Representatives. Yet he is an obscure figure in American history. James Traub has rectified this in a book worthy of its subject. Traub is a splendid storyteller and a perceptive guide to foreign policy. The result is an utterly compelling book.
Robert Kagan, author of "Of Paradise and Power"
John Quincy Adams was a great statesman and a heroic crusader for freedom, whose finest hours, ironically, came both before and after his time as president. James Traub does us a service by bringing him to life again for a new generation. With a journalist s touch, Traub paints a vivid portrait of the man in all his complexity.
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About the Author
James Traub is a regular columnist and contributor for ForeignPolicy.com, and a teacher of foreign policy at New York University. His books include The Best Intentions: Kofi Annan and the UN in the Era of American World Power (2006), The Devil's Playground: A Century of Pleasure and Profit in Times Square (2004), and City on a Hill (1994), and he is the author, most recently, of The Freedom Agenda, which was praised by Gen. Wesley Clark as "the most penetrating look yet at the historical and theoretical basis for democratization."
James Traub John Quincy Adams Militant Spirit
- Typ Okładki: Twarda oprawa
- Wydawnictwo: Basic Civitas Books
- Autor: James Traub
- Język książki: Angielski
- Rozmiar: 15.6 x 4.7 x 23.5 cm
- Ilość stron: 640
- Data premiery: 2015-09-01
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