Freedom, Independence, Peace: John Quincy Adams and American Foreign Policy

"As deftly crafted as it is compelling." (Andrew Bacevich) America's sixth president is often considered her greatest diplomat, famed above all for his urging that America "[go] not abroad in search of monsters to destroy." John Quincy Adams' decades of service to the United States saw the young nation through a turbulent era - the Napoleonic Wars and their aftermath, the collapse of the Spanish empire in the Americas, and the extension of America's boundaries to the Pacific Ocean. Adams' w...