Former President John Quincy Adams, “Old Man Eloquent,” fatally stricken at his desk in the House in 1848. (loc.gov) Adams, like his father, refused to attend the swearing in of his successor.

To be clear, Randall Woods' “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of ...

American astronomy thrives today largely because of the underpinnings achieved by John Quincy Adams in his far-reaching “light-houses of the skies” campaign.

When he was young, John Quincy Adams was told by his father, President John Adams, “If you do not rise to the head of your country…it will be owing to your own laziness….” At age 26, John ...

The road to Quincy. Boston traffic is notoriously bad, and Graham twice offered to meet outside of Quincy, the town where John Adams wrote the Massachusetts Constitution and where he lived with ...

‘John Quincy Adams: A Man For the Whole People’ By Randall Woods Dutton, 784 pages. Randall Woods joins a distinguished group of biographers, including Samuel Flagg Bemis, Fred Kaplan, and Phyllis Lee ...

After John Wood and Willard Keyes settled on the eastern bank of the Mississippi River in the 1820s, they petitioned the Illinois Legislature to create “Adams County”, with their founding ...

To be clear, Randall Woods’ “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods’ biography ...

To be clear, Randall Woods' ''John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People'' is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of the ...

To be clear, Randall Woods' “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of ...

To be clear, Randall Woods' “John Quincy Adams: A Man for the Whole People” is not a leisurely read designed for the beach or airport. Clocking in at more than 700 pages, Woods' biography of ...