![]() ![]() Wistfully poring over John Quincy’s voluminous diary, letters, writings, and speeches, they see a progressive visionary whose ideas of social justice and republicanism may have played out through the actions of an aggressive federal government. While the controversy over ‘‘Old Hickory’’ has not abated, many scholars have turned to Adams as the intellectually redemptive alternative in the early republic the political road not taken by the American voter. Thereafter, Adams’s broader legacy has largely been overshadowed by the intense debate over Andrew Jackson, whose polarizing presence divides academics today as it did the public in the antebellum era. More than a half century ago, Samuel Flagg Bemis crafted his two-volume tribute to the New Englander. ![]() The John Quincy Adams revival is now in full voice. ![]()
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