Download American Legends: The Life of John Quincy Adams AudioBook Free
A lot of ink has been spilled covering the lives of history's most influential statistics, but how a lot of the forest is lost for the trees? In Charles River Editors' American Legends series, listeners can get swept up to speed on the lives of America's most important men and women in enough time it takes to complete a commute, while learning interesting facts long neglected or never known. John Adams was one of his country's seminal Founding Fathers and one of its most experienced, distinguished diplomats and politicians. Few men in American record have a record anywhere near similar, but one of them happened to be Adams's own son, John Quincy Adams. Yet, few Americans are aware of him apart from the reality he was his father's son and the sixth president of the United States. John Quincy Adams establish a great deal of firsts for his country. In addition to being the first son of a president to become president himself, John Quincy Adams also managed to be considered a US senator, a US House rep, a secretary of express, and an ambassador to many countries. Though he's known generally for his presidential races against Andrew Jackson, there's a general consensus among historians that he's one of America's most significant & most skilled diplomats, accountable for successes including the Treaty of Ghent (which ended the Battle of 1812), the annexation of Florida from Spain, and the Monroe Doctrine.
