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Nation builder : John Quincy Adams and the grand strategy of the republic / Charles N. Edel.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, (c)2014.Description: 1 online resource (392 pages, 17 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations, portraitsContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780674735637
Other title:
  • John Quincy Adams and the grand strategy of the republic
Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • E377 .N385 2014
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
Contents:
Clans and tribes at eternal war: European diplomacy and American politics -- In search of monsters to destroy: the extent and limits of American power -- The spirit of improvement: economic and moral development -- A stain upon the character of the nation: the fight against slavery -- The influence of our example: the legacy of John Quincy Adams.
Subject: America's rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel's provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War-era nation of Lincoln.
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Includes bibliographies and index.

The fires of honorable ambition: the education of John Quincy Adams -- Clans and tribes at eternal war: European diplomacy and American politics -- In search of monsters to destroy: the extent and limits of American power -- The spirit of improvement: economic and moral development -- A stain upon the character of the nation: the fight against slavery -- The influence of our example: the legacy of John Quincy Adams.

America's rise from revolutionary colonies to a world power is often treated as inevitable. But Charles N. Edel's provocative biography of John Q. Adams argues that he served as the central architect of a grand strategy whose ideas and policies made him a critical link between the founding generation and the Civil War-era nation of Lincoln.

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