Presidency of John Quincy Adams

by Mary W.M. Hargreaves

Book Overview

Historians have not been generous in judging the presidency of John Quincy Adams. Those who have most conspicuously upheld Adams's fame have, at the same time, virtually ignored his service in the White House. Critics, on the other hand, have described his administration as a failure, founded upon "bargain and corruption" and marked by exclusion of the United States from the British West Indian trade, the ineffectiveness of its efforts to promote...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0700602720
• ISBN13: 9780700602728
• Release Date: November 1985
• Publisher: University Press of Kansas
• Length: 414 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.3" x 9.3"