TY  - BOOK
AU  - Edel,Charles N.
TI  - Nation builder: John Quincy Adams and the grand strategy of the republic 
SN  - 9780674735637
AV  - E377 .N385 2014
PY  - 2014///
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 2; 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; 2; b
N2  - 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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