| International Standard Book Number |
9781638932604
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| International Standard Book Number |
1638932603
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| Dewey Decimal Classification Number |
973.5/2/092
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| Personal Name |
Crawford, Bob (Musician), author.
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| Title Statement |
America's founding son : John Quincy Adams, from president to political maverick / Bob Crawford ; illustrations by Garrett Morlan.
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| Varying Form of Title |
John Quincy Adams, from president to political maverick.
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| Varying Form of Title |
From president to political maverick.
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| Edition Statement |
First edition.
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| Imprint |
©2026.
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| Imprint |
New York : Zando, 2026.
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| Physical Description |
xxviii, 319 pages : illustrations, portraits ; 24 cm.
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| Bibliography, Etc. Note |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
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| Formatted Contents Note |
Act one -- 1. The slave drivers, as usual, bluster and bully... -- 2. To break one link in the chain of slavery -- 3. We are on the eve of a great crisis, of which scarcely any one is yet aware -- 4. For the present the contest is laid to sleep -- 5. To arouse and awaken the American people to a sense of the inconsistency, the hypocrisy, and the iniquity -- 6. Was there ever witnessed such a barefaced corruption in any country before? -- 7. I would not exchange circumstances with any person on earth -- 8. Palsied by the will of our constituents -- Act two -- 9. The lion's den of slavites, slave traders, and all the devils in human shape -- 10. I have been deeply disappointed in him, and now expect nothing from him but evil -- 11. It crushes the body ... breaks the heart and kills the soul -- 12. I fear I must -- 13. Am I gagged? -- 14. What is a mob? -- Act three. 15. Your friend and fellow citizen, John Quincy Adams -- 16. Amistad -- 17. Ann Sprigg's boardinghouse -- 18. The acutest, the astutest, the archest enemy of Southern slavery that ever existed -- 19. Let justice be done, though the heavens fall! -- 20. This is the end of earth.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"An accessible and entertaining biography of our nation's greatest public servant and original political maverick John Quincy Adams, from the bassist of the Grammy-nominated band the Avett Brothers."--Amazon.
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| Summary, Etc. |
"During the tumultuous period between the era of the Founding Fathers and the disunion of the Civil War, John Quincy Adams was the man standing in the breach. After an unsuccessful presidential reelection campaign, he was left reckoning with his political legacy. But Adams would soon be dragged back into the fray in ways he never expected, pitting him against the slavocracy and Southern congressmen and solidifying him as a key ally to the antislavery cause. America's Founding Son tells the tale of Adams's turbulent government career and his evolving views on slavery. Adams, along with lesser-known abolitionists Benjamin Lundy and Theodore Weld, found himself at the center of the coalition that leveled the first blow against slave power in the United States. The battles they fought would be foundational in the push for emancipation that followed. An entertaining deep dive into an underexplored period in American history, America's Founding Son shows how John Quincy Adams and the grassroots activism of the 1830s and '40s shifted American politics forever."-- back cover.
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| Subject-Personal Name |
Adams, John Quincy, 1767-1848.
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| Subject Added Entry - Topical Term |
Presidents United States Biography.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1789-1815.
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| Subject Added Entry - Geographical Term |
United States Politics and government 1825-1829.
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| Index Term-Genre/Form |
Biographies.
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| Added Entry, Personal Name |
Morlan, Garrett, illustrator.
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