Book Review: A First Lady With Charm and Fortune

Louisa The Extraordinary Life of Mrs. Adams by Louisa Thomas
 (Penguin Press) THERE ARE TWO blended pleasures in a new biography of Louisa Catherine Johnson, the English-born woman who married John Quincy Adams, America’s sixth president. The main pleasure is that Louisa Adams consumes us as a demure yet dazzling woman, a somewhat overlooked first …