Archive for Richard M. Weaver
Book Review: John Quincy Adams and the Union by Samuel Flagg Bemis
New York: Alfred A. Knopf. 547 pp. $8.75. John Quincy Adams was the last President to serve before the flood of Jacksonian equalitarianism permanently changed the tone of American political life. He was not a brilliant or a profound man; but he was an indefatigable worker who kept a diary of his activities for sixty [...]
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