History. The grandson of John Quincy Adams wrote a four-volume history of Thomas Jefferson's administration. I find there's something breath-taking about far-

History. The grandson of John Quincy Adams wrote a four-volume history of Thomas Jefferson's administration. I find there's something breath-taking about far-reaching decisions being made by a young nation with only early 19th-century technology. You might also enjoy the sardonic memoir he wrote just before he died in 1918: "The Education of Henry Adams."