The Lost Founding Father

Overshadowed by both his brilliant father and the brash

and bold Andrew Jackson, John Quincy Adams has

long been dismissed as hyper-intellectual. Viciously

assailed by Jackson and his populist mobs for being both slippery

and effete, Adams nevertheless recovered from the malodorous

1828 presidential election to lead the nation as a lonely

Massachusetts congressman in the fight against slavery. Now,

award-winning historian William J. Cooper insightfully demonstrates

that Adams should be considered our lost Founding

Father, his moral and political vision the final link to the great

visionaries who created our nation. With his heroic arguments

in the Amistad trial forever memorialized, a fearless Adams

stood strong against the Jacksonian tide, the Gag Rule, and the

expansion of slavery that would send the nation hurtling into

war. This game-changing biography reveals Adams to be one of

the most battered but courageous and inspirational politicians

in American history.