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John and John Quincy Adams: rogue intellectuals, unsparing truth-tellers, too uncensored for their own political good. They held that political participation demanded moral courage. They did not seek popularity (it showed). they lamented the fact that hero worship in America substituted idolatry for results; and they made it clear that they were talking about Benjamin Franklin, George Washington, Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. When John Adams succeeded George Washington as President, his son had already followed him into public Service and was stationed in Europe as a diplomat. Though they spent many years apartment as their careers spanned Europe, Washington DC and their family home South of boston-theyy maintained a close bond through extensive letter Writing, debating history, political philosophy and partisan maneuvering. The problem of democracy is an urgent problem; the father-and-son presidents grasped the perilous psychology of politics and forecast what future generations would have to contend with: citizens wanting heroes to worship and covetous elites more than willing to mislead. Rejection at the polls, each after one Term, does not prove that the presidents Adams had erroneous ideas. Intellectually, they were what we today call "independents," reluctant to commit blindly to an organized political party. No historian has attempted to dissect their intertwined lives as Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein do in these pages and there is no better time than the present to learn from the American nation's most insightful malcontents.

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Region & Countries

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Paperback

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English

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• ISBN - 10 :

0525557504

• The Problem of Democracy Published On :

Apr 2019

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