Speaker 1: Coming into Curiosity podcast. America loves its founding fathers, but
Speaker 1: that's a tough act to follow as a founding son.
Speaker 1: If you do not rise to the head not only
Speaker 1: of your profession but of your country, you will be
Speaker 1: owing to your own laziness, slovenliness, and obstinacy. John Quincy
Speaker 1: Adams never escaped the long shadow of his father, John Adams.
Speaker 1: He failed as a one term president, but became an
Speaker 1: extraordinary ex president. He could see the coming Civil war
Speaker 1: and was trying desperately to stop it. I'm Bob Crawford
Speaker 1: as the basis for the Ava Brothers. I've spent a
Speaker 1: lot of time in tour buses reading American history, and
Speaker 1: John Quincy Adams deserves a second look. Join me, Patrick
Speaker 1: Warburton and Nick Offerman as we bring the sixth President
Speaker 1: to life. We'll travel back to the start of this
Speaker 1: fledgling nation, torn between slave and freest to a bitter
Speaker 1: presidential campaign against Andrew Jackson. Was there ever witnessed such
Speaker 1: a barefaced corruption in any country before? Letter from Philadelphia
Speaker 1: threatening organized opposition and civil war If Jackson has not chosen,
Speaker 1: and we'll follow John Quincy Adams to the halls of Congress,
Speaker 1: but he did want to reclaim his greatness after he
Speaker 1: had been knocked down, after his presidency actually had been
Speaker 1: something of a failure. We'll learn about his reluctance to
Speaker 1: join the abolitionists, only to later champion liberty for enslaved
Speaker 1: people by arguing a landmark case before the Supreme Court.
Speaker 1: I yielded and told them that if, by the blessing
Speaker 1: of God, my health and strength should permit, I would
Speaker 1: argue the case. We'll bring you inside the uprisings, legal battles,
Speaker 1: and political brinksmanship that threatened to shatter the fragile Union,
Speaker 1: and the toll Adams's ambition took on his family the
Speaker 1: grave of my lost child, the grasping ambition, which is
Speaker 1: an insatiable passion, swallowing and consuming all in its ever
Speaker 1: devouring more as the nation reckons with its history. Don't
Speaker 1: sleep on John Quincy Adams. He held the Union together
Speaker 1: across two pivotal errors and two visions for America, though
Speaker 1: it cost the blood of millions of white men. Let
Speaker 1: justice be done. Though the heavens fall, Adams stretches his
Speaker 1: hand forward to Lincoln, and in so many ways makes
Speaker 1: Lincoln possible you'll learn about the life and legacy of
Speaker 1: our sixth President, John Quincy Adams voiced by me Patrick Warpington.
Speaker 1: But you'll also be learning about our seventh President, Andrew Jackson,
Speaker 1: voiced by me Nick Offerman. Oh right, Jackson. That's the
Speaker 1: guy John Quincy Adams called the murderer in his diary.
Speaker 1: Oh yeah, Jackson did say he wished Adams would become
Speaker 1: paralyzed by a stroke, So yeah, they were not vibing
Speaker 1: each other. Listen to Founding Sun, a curiosity podcast, every
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