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James Traub’s splendid new biography, “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit,” asks us to envision him as the missing link between the creation of the American Republic and its near dissolution in the Civil War. John Quincy Adams is easy to admire, but difficult to like, much less love/5(96).  · John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit by Traub, James. Click here for the lowest price! Hardcover, , James Traub’s “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” was published in , about three years after I read four other biographies of the sixth president. Traub is a journalist and author who has written for The New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, The New York Post and Saturday Review. He is currently a Non-Resident Fellow at New York University/5.

Militant Spirit. By James Traub. pp. Basic Books. $ In June of , when John Quincy Adams was almost 8 years old, his mother, the indomitable Abigail, took him by the hand up a peak in. Traub appears to endorse her final judgment as his own, concluding that John Quincy Adams should be found "exasperating, tendentious, self-absorbed and yet, in the end, magnificent." JOHN QUINCY ADAMS Militant Spirit By James Traub pp. Basic Books. $ This book review was originally published in the New York Times on April 4, Journalist and foreign policy expert James Traub unveils his essential biography on the life and complex political career of America's sixth president—from h.

James Traub’s splendid new biography, “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit,” asks us to envision him as the missing link between the creation of the American Republic and its near dissolution in the Civil War. John Quincy Adams is easy to admire, but difficult to like, much less love. Written by journalist and author James Traub, “John Quincy Adams: Militant Spirit” is a masterful example of the presidential biographer’s art. In this superb book, Traub draws a highly detailed and multi-dimensional portrait of John Quincy Adams and the times in which he lived. JOHN QUINCY ADAMS. MILITANT SPIRIT. by James Traub ‧RELEASE DATE: Ma. The life of an early American statesman and president who served as the young nation’s strenuous conscience. Traub (Foreign Policy/New York Univ.;.