Source: Law & Liberty
by Michael Lucchese
“John Quincy Adams was a witness to the birth of the American republic. The son of the statesman most responsible for the independence of the United States, he spent his formative years in a Massachusetts abuzz with the excitement of rebellion or abroad working on behalf of his country’s interests in the hostile courts of Europe. Aside from the actual leaders of the Revolution, perhaps no contemporary of those events was better placed to understand and articulate their greater meaning. The Library of America has already done a great service by publishing an edition of Adams’s famous diaries …. Now the publisher has followed it up with a new edition of Adams’s Speeches and Writings, edited by David Waldstreicher, collecting some of his most important addresses to an American people he loved but perhaps never fully understood.” (04/11/25)
https://lawliberty.org/book-review/from-son-of-the-revolution-to-old-man-eloquent/