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Genre/Form: | Biographies Quotations Biography |
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Named Person: | John Quincy Adams; John Quincy Adams; John Quincy Adams |
Material Type: | Biography, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Gary V Wood |
ISBN: | 0739106015 9780739106013 |
OCLC Number: | 226067205 |
Description: | pages cm |
Contents: | Ch. I. Introduction -- Ch. II. Adams, the Constitution, and the Contemporary Scholarly Debate -- Ch. III. John Quincy Adams, the Founders, and Slavery -- Ch. IV. Jubilee of the Constitution -- Ch. V. The Africans of the Amistad -- Ch. VI. The Amistad Case -- Ch. VII. The Legacy of John Quincy Adams. |
Responsibility: | Gary V. Wood. |
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Gary V. Wood, in this penetrating and clear-sighted study of John Quincy Adams, renovates and augments one of the most significant "exceptionalist" interpretations of American political history. His book is an important contribution to the recovery of the foundations of American constitutionalism faithfully and vigorously pursued for many years by Harry V. Jaffa and his students. * Claremont Review of Books * Gary Wood has written a rigorous and thoroughly persuasive account of the political thought of John Quincy Adams. In a tour de force of political and scholarly analysis, Wood demonstrates the centrality of this theology in Adams' Jubilee of the Constitution and his argument in the Amistad case. This is the first work that attempts to understand Adams as he understood himself. Wood thus transcends the simple-minded historicist view that all political thought is merely an artifact of its time. Wood's thesis is novel and brilliantly argued. -- Edward J. Erler, California State University, San Bernardino Read more...


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