About America’s Founding Son: John Quincy Adams
Bob Crawford, best known as the bassist of the beloved folk
band The Avett Brothers, is a historian and author of America's Founding Son: John
Quincy Adams, from President to Political Maverick. He is the creator of
the podcasts "Founding Son: John Quincy's America" and "The Road to Now." Join
us as Bob delves into early American history, in conversation with Executive
Director of Oregon Historical Society Kerry Tymchuk.
For many years, Bob Crawford spent long stretches on his
tour bus devouring books on American history. Among all the figures Crawford
has studied, one fascinated him most: John Quincy Adams, the often-overlooked
former president whose fierce independence, nimble activism for democracy, and
early crusade against slavery still echo powerfully today.
America's Founding Son tells the tale of Adams's
turbulent government career and his evolving views on slavery. Adams, along
with lesser-known abolitionists Benjamin Lundy and Theodore Weld, found himself
at the center of the coalition that leveled the first blow against slave power
in the United States. The battles they fought would be foundational in the push
for emancipation. An entertaining deep dive into an under-explored period in
American history, America's Founding Son shows how John Quincy Adams and
the grassroots activism of the 1830s and '40s shifted American politics
forever.
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