Coming to Curiosity Podcast

America loves its founding fathers, but that's a tough act to follow as a founding son.

If you do not rise to the head, not only of your profession but of your country, you will

be going to your own laziness, slaveliness and obstinacy.

John Quincy Adams never escaped the long shadow of his father, John Adams.

He failed as a one-term president, but became an extraordinary ex-president.

He could see the coming civil war and was trying desperately to stop it.

I'm Bob Crawford.

As the basis for the Ava Brothers, I've spent a lot of time in tourbuses reading American

history.

And John Quincy Adams deserves a second look.

Join me, Patrick Warburton and Nick Offerman, as we bring the sixth president to life.

We'll travel back to the start of this fledgling nation, torn between slave and free states

to a bitter presidential campaign against Andrew Jackson.

Was there ever witnessed such a bare-faced corruption in any country before?

Let her from Philadelphia threatening organized opposition and civil war if Jackson is not

chosen.

And we'll follow John Quincy Adams to the halls of Congress.

But he didn't want to reclaim his greatness after he had been knocked down.

After his presidency actually had been something of a failure.

We'll learn about his reluctance to join the abolitionists, only to later champion liberty

for enslaved people by arguing a landmark case before the Supreme Court.

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