Companion to John Adams and John Quincy Adams

David Waldstreicher is Professor of History at Temple University and co-editor of the Journal of the Early Republic. His books include Runaway America: Benjamin Franklin, Slavery, and the American Revolution (2004), Slavery’s Constitution: From Revolution to Ratification (2009), and A Companion to Benjamin Franklin (Wiley-Blackwell, 2011).

“This is a fine collection of essays on the Adamses and an excellent introduction to one of the most admired, despised, honored, and disrespected families in American history.”  (Presidential Studies Quarterly, 1 June 2015)“This is an excellent resource for any academic reference collection or special library with specialization in Colonial America, politics, or regional history.”  (Reference Reviews, 1 January 2014)“David Waldstreicher has compiled a glittering collection of essays surveying the lives and times of the second and sixth presidents of the United States. The public and private lives of John, John Quincy and the inimitable Abigail Adams continue to fascinate both academe and the reading public.”  (Expofairs.com, 6 May  2013)

• List of Figures x About the Contributors xiIntroduction: The Adams paradox 1David WaldstreicherPart I The First Generation 31 John Adams: The Life and the Biographers 5R. B. Bernstein2 John Adams and Enlightenment 36Darren Staloff3 The Revolutionary Politics of John Adams, 1760–1775 60Colin Nicolson4 John Adams in the Continental Congress 78Karen N. Barzilay5 John Adams’s Political Thought 102David J. Siemers6 John Adams, Diplomat 125Wendy H. Wong7 John Adams and the Elections of 1796 and 1800 142David W. Houpt8 The Presidency of John Adams 166Douglas Bradburn9 John Adams and Religion 184John Fea10 Abigail Adams and Feminism 199Elaine Forman Crane11 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 218Margaret A. HoganPart II The Second Generation 23912 John Quincy Adams: The Life, the Diary, and the Biographers 241David Waldstreicher13 John Quincy Adams and National Republicanism 263Andrew Shankman14 John Quincy Adams, Diplomacy, and American Empire 281John M. Belohlavek15 John Quincy Adams and the Elections of 1824 and 1828 305David P. Callahan16 The Presidency of John Quincy Adams 328Padraig Riley17 John Quincy Adams, Internal Improvements, and the Nation State 348Sean Patrick Adams18 John Quincy Adams: Apostle of Union 367David F. Ericson19 John Quincy Adams, Cosmopolitan 383Bethel Saler20 John Quincy Adams and the Tangled Politics of Slavery 402Matthew Mason21 John Quincy Adams’s Higher Learnings: Rhetoric, Science, and Intellectual History 422Marlana Portolano22 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 445Catherine Allgor and Margery M. HeffronPart III Images and Legacies 46923 Thomas Jefferson and the John Adams Family 471Herbert E. Sloan24 The Adamses on Screen 487Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein25 An American Dynasty 510Edith B. GellesReferences 542Index 568