American Phoenix: John Quincy and Louisa Adams

✍ Scribed by Cook, Jane Hampton

• Publisher: Thomas Nelson
• Year: 2013
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 570 KB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN-13: 9781595555410

✦ Synopsis

John Quincy and Louisa Adams’sunexpected journey that changed everything.

American Phoenix is the sweeping, riveting tale of a grand historic adventure acrossforbidding oceans and frozen tundra—from the bustling ports and toweringbirches of Boston to the remote reaches of pre-Soviet Russia, from an exile in arcticSt. Petersburg to resurrection and reunion among the gardens of Paris. Uponthese varied landscapes this Adams and his Eve must find a way to transformtheir banishment into America’s salvation.

Author,historian, and national media commentator Jane Hampton Cook breathes life intoonce-obscure history, weaving a meticulously researched biographical tapestrythat reads like a gripping novel. With the arc and intrigue of Shakespeareandrama in a Jane Austen era, AmericanPhoenix is a timely yet timeless addition to the recent renaissance ofworks on the founding Adams family, from patriarchs John and Abigail to the second-generationof...