List of Figures x About the Contributors xi Introduction: The Adams paradox 1 David Waldstreicher Part I The First Generation 3 1 John Adams: The Life and the Biographers 5 R. B. Bernstein 2 John Adams and Enlightenment 36 Darren Staloff 3 The Revolutionary Politics of John Adams, 1760-1775 60 Colin Nicolson 4 John Adams in the Continental Congress 78 Karen N. Barzilay 5 John Adams's Political Thought 102 David J. Siemers 6 John Adams, Diplomat 125 Wendy H. Wong 7 John Adams and the Elections of 1796 and 1800 142 David W. Houpt 8 The Presidency of John Adams 166 Douglas Bradburn 9 John Adams and Religion 184 John Fea 10 Abigail Adams and Feminism 199 Elaine Forman Crane 11 Abigail Adams: The Life and the Biographers 218 Margaret A. Hogan Part II The Second Generation 239 12 John Quincy Adams: The Life, the Diary, and the Biographers 241 David Waldstreicher 13 John Quincy Adams and National Republicanism 263 Andrew Shankman 14 John Quincy Adams, Diplomacy, and American Empire 281 John M.

Belohlavek 15 John Quincy Adams and the Elections of 1824 and 1828 305 David P. Callahan 16 The Presidency of John Quincy Adams 328 Padraig Riley 17 John Quincy Adams, Internal Improvements, and the Nation State 348 Sean Patrick Adams 18 John Quincy Adams: Apostle of Union 367 David F. Ericson 19 John Quincy Adams, Cosmopolitan 383 Bethel Saler 20 John Quincy Adams and the Tangled Politics of Slavery 402 Matthew Mason 21 John Quincy Adams's Higher Learnings: Rhetoric, Science, and Intellectual History 422 Marlana Portolano 22 A Monarch in a Republic: Louisa Catherine Johnson Adams and Court Culture in Early Washington City 445 Catherine Allgor and Margery M. Heffron Part III Images and Legacies 469 23 Thomas Jefferson and the John Adams Family 471 Herbert E. Sloan 24 The Adamses on Screen 487 Nancy Isenberg and Andrew Burstein 25 An American Dynasty 510 Edith B. Gelles References 542 Index 568.