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Article: Mr. Adams stays in Washington ; How a frustrated president morphed into powerful congressman
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
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- February 24, 2008
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Book Review
Mr. Adams's Last Crusade:
John Quincy Adams's Extraordinary Post-Presidential Life in
Congress
By Joseph Wheelan
PublicAffairs, 309 pp., illustrated, $26.95
Though many former US presidents have retired from the public
eye, not all have been content with quiet pursuits. Thomas
Jefferson, among his other accomplishments, founded a university in
his home state of Virginia. William Howard Taft, defeated in the
election of 1912, changed branches of government when he became
chief justice of the Supreme Court nine years later. In our time,
Jimmy Carter has built houses for the poor, aided relief efforts,
and provoked controversy with his views on the Mideast.
Then there's the ...