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Book SynopsisA Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams presents a collection of original historiographic essays contributed by leading historians that cover diverse aspects of the lives and politics of John and John Quincy Adams and their spouses, Abigail and Louisa Catherine.
Trade Review“This is a fine collection of essays on the Adamses and an excellent introduction to one of the most admired, despised, honored, and disrespected families in American history.” (Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1 June 2015)
“This is an excellent resource for any academic reference collection or special library with specialization in Colonial America, politics, or regional history.” (Reference Reviews, 1 January 2014)
“David Waldstreicher has compiled a glittering collection of essays surveying the lives and times of the second and sixth presidents of the United States. The public and private lives of John, John Quincy and the inimitable Abigail Adams continue to fascinate both academe and the reading public.” (Expofairs.com, 6 May 2013)
Table of ContentsList of Figures x
About the Contributors xi
Introduction: The Adams paradox 1
David Waldstreicher
Part I The First Generation 3
1 John Adams: The Life and the Biographers 5
R. B. Bernstein
2 John Adams and Enlightenment 36
Darren Staloff
3 The Revolutionary Politics of John Adams, 1760–1775 60
Colin Nicolson
4 John Adams in the Continental Congress 78
Karen N. Barzilay
5 John Adams’s Political Thought 102
David J. Siemers
6 John Adams, Diplomat 125
Wendy H. Wong
7 John Adams and the Elections of 1796 and 1800 142
David W. Houpt
8 The Presidency of John Adams 166
Douglas Bradburn
9 John Adams and Religion 184
John Fea
10 Abigail Adams and Feminism 199
Elaine Forman Crane
11 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 218
Margaret A. Hogan
Part II The Second Generation 239
12 John Quincy Adams: The Life, the Diary, and the Biographers 241
David Waldstreicher
13 John Quincy Adams and National Republicanism 263
Andrew Shankman
14 John Quincy Adams, Diplomacy, and American Empire 281
John M. Belohlavek
15 John Quincy Adams and the Elections of 1824 and 1828 305
David P. Callahan
16 The Presidency of John Quincy Adams 328
Padraig Riley
17 John Quincy Adams, Internal Improvements, and the Nation State 348
Sean Patrick Adams
18 John Quincy Adams: Apostle of Union 367
David F. Ericson
19 John Quincy Adams, Cosmopolitan 383
Bethel Saler
20 John Quincy Adams and the Tangled Politics of Slavery 402
Matthew Mason
21 John Quincy Adams’s Higher Learnings: Rhetoric, Science, and Intellectual History 422
Marlana Portolano
22 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 445
Catherine Allgor and Margery M. Heffron
Part III Images and Legacies 469
23 Thomas Jefferson and the John Adams Family 471
Herbert E. Sloan
24 The Adamses on Screen 487
Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein
25 An American Dynasty 510
Edith B. Gelles
References 542
Index 568
