About this item
John Adams, our second president, and his son John Quincy Adams, our sixth, were the only two men rejected by voters for a second term as president in the first fifty years of American political history. This book tells us why. Both men were educated and experienced, but they faced a country where personality came to mean more than policy, and where the most forceful characters, like Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson, came to power. You won't find a better account of the endless battle between reason and emotion in shaping our world. Review by Kevin, Downtown Library
About the Author
Nancy Isenberg is the author of Fallen Founder: The Life of Aaron Burr, which was a finalist for the LA Times Book Prize in Biography. She is the coauthor, with Andrew Burstein, of Madison and Jefferson (2010) and The Problem of Democracy (2019) . She is the T. Harry Williams Professor of American History at LSU. Isenberg is the winner of the 2016 Walter & Lillian Lowenfels Criticism Award from the Before Columbus Foundation and was #4 on the 2016 Politico 50 list. She lives in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and Charlottesville, Virginia.
