“ has surprising resonance with the present. But he asked more of America than it is inclined to ask of itself. He was, as Edel demonstrates, a farseeing man.
I don’t know that today’s grand strategists would find Adams’s exacting standards congenial. Few presidents merit such treatment as much as Adams, who, through essays, speeches, letters and a diary kept meticulously over almost 70 years, left a remarkable record of a great mind at work on the prospects of the young, fragile nation… For Adams, greatness without virtue-like the greatness of Napoleon-was monstrous.
“ Nation Builder: John Quincy Adams and the Grand Strategy of the Republic is an intellectual biography rather than a full-dress life.
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