Hi, I'm Jeff Sickena, executive director of the Ashbrook Center, and this is the American

idea, where we discuss the ideas, people, and events that have made America what it is today.

We believe that by understanding our history and our principles, we can better

live up to the promise of the American founding and preserve our ongoing experiment in self-government.

Welcome to the American Idea. I want to welcome everyone to this episode of the American Idea.

Today we're going to be

talking about a very consequential American in the history of our country and particularly

the history of the 19th century, someone who kind of bridges the gap between the American

Revolution and founding period and westward expansion and all the other important events that

happened in the course of our country's history in the first half of the 19th century.

And that person, of course, is John Quincy Adams.

And particularly this conversation about John Quincy Adams has been brought on by the release

of a new edition of his writings by the Library of America.

And when I want to talk about that work, I want to talk about the life, legacy, and thought of John Quincy Adams.

And for that conversation, we're joined today by Michael Lucchasey.

Michael is associate editor of Law and liberty, well-known

online publication and book review. He's also contributing editor to Providence and founder of

Pike Creek Consulting. And I think you also hold the title of Director of Mentorship. Is that right?

For the Hudson Institute. Yeah, the Hudson Institute Political Studies Program. That's right.

Very good. So this is a person who is, I'll call him an old, I'll use an old-fashioned term.

Michael is a man of letters. And what better person to talk with than about another great man

of letters, John Quincy Adams. Michael, thanks for taking the time to join us on the American Idea.

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