John Quincy Adams / Harlow Giles Unger.
He fought for Washington, served with Lincoln, witnessed Bunker Hill, and sounded the clarion against slavery on the eve of the Civil War. He negotiated an end to the War of 1812, engineered the annexation of Florida, and won the Supreme Court decision that freed the African captives of The Amistad....
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Da Capo Press,
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Table of Contents:
- A first son for a founding father
- The seeds of statesmanship
- The land of lovely dames
- "He grows...very fat"
- Never was a father more satisfied
- A free, independent, and powerful nation
- A profile in courage
- Diplomatic exile
- Restoring peace to the world
- Stepladder to the presidency
- The great and foul stain
- The end of the beginning
- A new beginning
- Freedom is the prize.