Marlana Portolano. The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. xiii + 231 pp., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. $70

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Marlana Portolano. The Passionate Empiricist: The Eloquence of John Quincy Adams in the Service of Science. xiii + 231 pp., bibl., index. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009. $70 [Book Review]

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