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Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
xxix, 541 pages ; illustrations : 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"How the father and son presidents foresaw the rise of the cult of personality and fought those who sought to abuse the weaknesses inherent in our democracy. Until now, no one has properly dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth (father and son) presidents. John and John Quincy Adams were brilliant, prickly politicians and arguably the most independently minded among leaders of the founding generation. Distrustful of blind allegiance...