John Quincy Adams: Diaries Vol. 2 1821-1848 (LOA #294)By: John Quincy Adams Series: Library of America Adams Family Collection A landmark new selected edition of an American masterpiece: the incomparable self portrait of a man and his times from the Revolution to the coming of the Civil War The diary of John Quincy Adams is one of the most extraordinary works in American literature. Begun in 1779 at the age of twelve and kept more or less faithfully until his death almost 70 years later, and totaling