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March 20, 2016 March 20, 2016/ Steve Donoghue

A smart and appealingly complex new biography of America's contentious sixth president

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james traub, John Quincy Adams, March 2016, militant spirit, open letters weekly 16
October 02, 2014

Book Review: Nation Builder

October 02, 2014/ Steve Donoghue

John Quincy Adams dreamed of an America very different from the chaotic and largely agrarian new nation he served for the whole of his life, and the details of that dream are laid out in a fine new study

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charles edel, John Quincy Adams, nation builder, October 2014, open letters weekly
September 15, 2013

Book Review: Ecstatic Nation

September 15, 2013/ Steve Donoghue

A big, riveting new history looks at the unforgettable men and women who filled the history of the most tumultuous three-decade span in American history

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american history, brenda wineapple, civil war history, clarence king, ecstatic nation, history, John Quincy Adams, open letters weekly, September 2013
October 31, 2012

The Power Season

October 31, 2012/ Steve Donoghue

As Americans go to the polls this month to elect a president, some recent biographies examine the lives of five very different men who once held the office.

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Aida D- Donald, Basic Books, Book Review, CAmbridge University Press, Citizen Soldier: A Life of Harry Truman, Da Capo Press, Doubleday, H W Brands, Harlow Giles Unger, John Quincy Adams, Jon Meacham, Jonathan Lurie, November 2012, OLM, Open Letters Monthly, Random House, Steve Donoghue, The Man Who Saved the union: Ulysses Grant in War and Peace, Thomas Jefferson: The Art of Power, William Howard Taft: The Travails of a Progressive Conservative
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