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When John Quincy Adams—the sixty-three-year-old former president, U.S. senator, secretary of state, and diplomat—was elected to the House of Representatives by his Massachusetts neighbors, he embarked on a spectacular late-life career.
He became Congress’s most acerbic and influential critic of slavery as well as a tireless proponent for human freedoms and First Amendment rights. This remarkable congressional career utterly transformed him, the public’s perception of him, and his legacy—in many ways redeeming his failed presidency. Mr. Adams’s Last Crusade renders an insightful portrait of a man who placed his country above politics.
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Joseph Wheelan, a former Associated Press reporter and editor, is the author of Invading Mexico: America's Continental Dream and the Mexican War, 1846-1848 Jefferson's War: America's First War on Terror, 1801-1805 and Jefferson's Vendetta: The Pursuit of Aaron Burr and the Judiciary. He lives in Cary, North Carolina.
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Book Description Softcover. Condition: new. Reprint. Following his single term as President of the United States 18251829 John Quincy Adams embittered by his loss to Andrew Jackson boycotted his successors inauguration just as his father John Adams had done the only two presidents ever to do so Rather than retire the sixtytwoyearold former president US senator secretary of state and Harvard professor was elected by his Massachusetts friends and neighbors to the House of Representatives to throw off the incubus of Jacksonianism It was the opening chapter in what was arguably the most remarkable postpresidency in American historyIn this engaging biography historian Joseph Wheelan describes Adamss battles against the House Gag Rule that banished abolition petitions the removal of Eastern Indian tribes and the annexation of slaveholding Texas while recounting his efforts to establish the Smithsonian Institution As a man of the whole country Adams was not bound by political party yet was reelected to the House eight times before collapsing at his post of duty on February 21 1848 and then dying in the House Speakers office His funeral evoked the greatest public outpouring since Benjamin Franklins deathMr Adamss Last Crusade will enlighten and delight anyone interested in American history. Seller Inventory # DADAX1586486896
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