- Published: 22 April 2025
- ISBN: 9781598538083
- Imprint: Library of America
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 832
- RRP: $95.00
John Quincy Adams: Speeches & Writings (LOA #390)

















- Published: 22 April 2025
- ISBN: 9781598538083
- Imprint: Library of America
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 832
- RRP: $95.00
“Drawn from period newspapers, pamphlets, and original manuscripts, this collection reminds us that Adams was not only a lawyer, a diplomat, a senator, a secretary of state, an American president—and the man who had one of the most consequential and important post-presidencies in our history—he was a distinguished writer, who cared profoundly about the budding nation and its moral stature, so deeply and tragically compromised by slavery, which he came to loathe. A tonic for our, or any, time.”
—Brenda Wineapple, author of The Impeachers: The Trial of Andrew Johnson and the Dream of a Just Nation
“Perhaps the nation’s greatest statesman, John Quincy Adams was certainly its most wide-ranging and most literary. We are deeply indebted to the Library of America for this superb volume of his essential speeches and writings.”
—Gordon S. Wood, author of Empire of Liberty: A History of the Early Republic 1789–1815