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Andrew Jackson: His Life and Times by H.W. Brands

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Loved it. I guess it helped the author to have a subject that led such an eventful, action-packed  life. The author kept a nice balance  between too much and not  enough detail.  

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John Quincy Adams: A Public Life, a Private Life – by Paul C. Nagel

 
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Quincy was a man conflicted between the desire for a contemplative intellectual life and the rough-and-tumble world of politics. He never reconciled the two,  and a result was often unhappy.
This book was a bit of a snooze. As a man of words not action, his life just wasn’t that interesting.