Description
About the Author
Paul C. Nagel is former Director of the Virginia Historical Society, a trustee of the Colonial Williamsburg Foundation, a cultural laureate of Virginia, and a contributing editor of American Heritage.
Reviews
Nagel has set out to explore his hero's inner life...It is a story told largely from the vantage point of the subject. * Wall Street Journal *
Nagel offers a rich portrait of the moody and anxiety-ridden Adams...This biography remov[es] the dust from his portrait and restor[es] the glow of historical significance to his splendid and troubled life. * Washington Post *
Paul C. Nagel focuses on the sources of Adams's curious mixture of duty and defiance...It is the character of the man, his personality, that dominates this biography...Nagel has given us a John Quincy Adams with a heart as well as a head. * Los Angeles Times Book Review *
Nagel clearly knows his topic inside out, and his account of Adam's eventful life--from diplomat to professor to President--is eminently readable...This book is thoroughly engaging. We glimpse a side of Adams that he preferred to keep private: his eye for the ladies, his self-lacerating depressions, his contempt for what he referred to as the 'crazy' orations of Ralph Waldo Emerson...What emerges from Nagel's book is a more fully rounded character. -- Paul Giles * Times Literary Supplement *
Book Information
ISBN 9780674479401
Author Paul C. Nagel
Format Paperback
Page Count 466
Imprint Harvard University Press
Publisher Harvard University Press
Weight(grams) 635g