If they lacked the storied charisma of celebrated contemporaries, their losses at the polls do not automatically reflect the failure of their ideas. Intellectually, they were what we today call “independents,” reluctant to commit blindly to an organized political party. Beyond the intimate, inherently fascinating story of their accomplished, if oft-disparaged careers, The Problem of Democracy tells how the two statesmen scoured the globe for political intelligence, represented their country in foreign courts, and took extraordinary risks wherever they traveled. presidents, father and son, John and John Quincy Adams. Until now, no historical investigator has dissected the intertwined lives of the second and sixth U.S. they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, & Andrew Jackson. They lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results. OFFICIAL BOOK DESCRIPTION: They did not seek popularity, and it showed.
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