John Quincy Adams

At seven, John Quincy Adams climbed a hill with his mother to hear the guns at Bunker Hill and watch Charlestown burn. Two years later, he was riding eleven miles each way to bring her the latest news.

John T. Morse Jr.’s late-nineteenth-century biography begins in revolutionary Massachusetts, where the son of John and Abigail Adams grows up amid siege, uncertainty, and a household shaped by public duty. Brilliant but not beyond self-doubt, the boy admits to his father that his thoughts keep straying to birds’ eggs and play; soon, he is crossing the Atlantic on diplomatic journeys and keeping a journal at his father’s urging. The child who worries over how to divide study and play will become a statesman whose private record follows the nation’s public life. What will his watchful eye make of the world opening before him?

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