Saturday 13 June 2009

Summer Reading Challenge: BJ Rose’s Task - Read A Biography (Not An Autobiography) of a U.S. President who was either born Or who died during summer

John Quincy Adams (11 July 1767 - 23 February 1848) - More information can be found here


This book was fascinating in places, particularly in it's discussion of early American foreign and economic policy (isolationist and protectionist), but the language is of the time it was written which makes it hard to read. I'm sure there are much better books available on John Quincy Adams than this one which also seems biased very much in his favour.

Points so far: 90

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