John Quincy Adams

Short Review: This is an excellent short biography of John Quincy Adams. Adams was not particularly lucky in life, but he did accomplish much in spite of having really bad timing. The section on the presidency is probably a bit too short, but that was not the most interesting part of Adams' life, so the shortness makes sense.

There are all kind of parallels between JQA's time and our own that may or may have any validity. But over and over again I kept thinking ‘that its just like xxx (modern political person or problem).' I did not have a great historical background on this time period so I learned quite a bit.

My full review (over 1000 words) is on my blog at http://bookwi.se/john-quincy-adam/