he makes it in favor of john quincy adams.t becomes the basis of andrew jackson and his supporters' cry of a corrupt bargain. the whole system again turns into controversy by 1828. host: jackson is successful in 1828 and is the president that our current incumbent president trump points to as his favorite in history. how did the election of andrew jackson change the system again? dr. brown: it certainly changed in that andrew jackson was from tennessee, he was this war hero, he had a certain celebrity in the country. he also wanted to represent the common man. interestingly enough, in 1828, he basically picked up william crawford's campaign manager, who had been martin van buren, who later becomes president. but martin van buren helps andrew jackson to expand the basis of the parties. the parties become these mass organizations. by 1832, andrew jackson and martin van buren had decided to adopt an innovation called the national convention, which was a way to bring all the state party leaders to one convention to choose the nomi

i would go to really good research libraries and get in those card catalogs and look up john quincy adamsy his last name. how many books are thereby john quincy adams? making that list, it was astonishing how many were by them. herbert hoover wrote a mining textbook. who knew? also there were these really , intimate and important books. i started to realize that abraham lincoln, calvin coolidge, ulysses s. grant, jefferson, adams, there were so many examples of these books really mattering. that is when i started to realize that there was a story to tell here. >> you alluded to the history of nonfiction book publishing in america. why do you tell that part of the story? craig: that is what helps us realize how important these books have been. even if you read a good biography about a lot of the presidents i talk about their , books don't come up. there books are not central. biographers and historians have a lot of work to do. they are worried about the policy. my books are about the human side and the publishing side and running for office. without that context, you can't realize how imp

john quincy adams wrote wonderful diaries.rom garfield, diaries allow us to know that he was reading civil war books. i wanted my book to tell a real story and to be a coherent book. to do that, i had to make cuts. there have been a lot of presidents that wrote a lot of things. important --, their books, presidents reading other presidents. but his storypolk is not one of the best stories. i did not want to waste pages on it. favorite?have a startis a good place to for people who have not spent a lot of time with these books? craig: i like calvin coolidge's autobiography. it is a wonderfully personal book. we talked about usss grant -- ulysses s. grant's book and how even know it had great details, it did not shape his legacy. calvin coolidge did not do that. sixth as long as grant's. it is a wonderfully personal volume. the example that stood out to me centers on calvin coolidge's son. his son died while he was in the white house. he developed a blister while playing on the white house lawn. in the air before antibiotics, tha

john quincy adams wrote wonderful diaries.rom garfield, diaries allow us to know that he was reading civil war books. diaries are good sources. i wanted my book to tell a real story and to be a coherent book. to do that, i had to make cuts. there have been a lot of presidents that wrote a lot of things. what interested me was the story of their books and how important their books have been to american history. focused on their books, what they were reading presidents , reading other presidents. no offense to polk but his story is not one of the best stories. i did not want to waste pages on it. >> do you have a favorite? or if people haven't spent much time with them, where's a good place to start? craig: i like calvin coolidge's autobiography. it came out a 1929. i don't believe it is in print anymore, but someone should change that. it is a wonderfully personal book. followedresidents have that approach, i got to list every fight i was in an say why i was right in every one of those fights. calvin coolidge did not do that. h

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the night before, they had been hosted by john quincy adams and his wife, louisa catherine adams. on both occasions, people commented he looked a bit distracted. he didn't quite seem himself. but nobody knew the fate that he would go out and face on that wednesday morning. he was a very popular man. you've heard some from admiral buck about his heroism in the navy. you'll hear more about his character in our program today. but he was so popular that, when he died on the ground floor parlors here in decatur house, news reports said 10,000 people came. 10,000 people in 1820 came to mourn him in front of decatur house. many believed that he would follow james monroe as president of the united states. now, unfortunately for the navy, admiral, that would have been the first navy veteran to become president. but it was not until 1961, a few presidents later, when john kennedy became the first navy veteran, followed in quick succession by several others who were distinguished navy veterans as well. when you came through the parlors today, i hope you took a few minutes to see the items th

for john quincy adams' son. thank you all for being here tonight to have this important conversation that we are privileged to host. i will welcome forward my good friend, president of the white house historical association. [applause] >> thank you. to the reverend and people of -- st. john's church, it is wonderful to be in your home in this historic neighborhood tonight for this very important conversation. i want to thank those who perform for us, a local washington, d.c. group, and i hope you enjoyed the music. [applause] to our friends joining us tonight by c-span or facebook live, welcome. we hope you enjoyed this conversation and we encourage you and everyone here to dive deep into this topic this evening. i am here on behalf of the board .f directors many are with us tonight welcoming you all for this wonderful conversation our historic it -- historians have been working on for several years. it was in may of 2016 at a speech in city college, new york, and later that summit -- later that summer in philad

large reception at the time that the adams family gave the portraits of luisa catherine and john quincy adams that had been in the family for over 150 years and were first painted in the 19th century. she gave a wonderful reception, and invited many adams descendents to the reception at the time. so, i think, and i remember, mrs. johnson had tried to acquire a portrait of james madison but it did not come in until the nixon administration and she invited mrs. johnson back for when that was unveiled in 1969 -- 1970 think it was. -- 1970i think it was. i do remember when the blue room was unveiled in 1972, and that was a major project. mrs. nixon had gone to a n historic house in georgetown to look at plasterwork which was copied and replicated for the blue room. they were having this enormous reception that was being held and it was the same evening that george wallace was shot. they went on with the reception. i remember the president and mrs. nixon speaking at the reception. >> that was a good question. right here. >> mrs. trump recently went to an active combat zone and i do not think that

and peter is looking closely at the john quincy adams diary, which those of you who have never read it or seen it, it is just a magnificent thing. and that is in front of our book. >> this is from paul in the audience. we know from our work at c-span he has been a white house reporter for 11 years. and he is distressed with the attacks on the press that are happening right now and fear the average anger and distress endure long after the trump administration. how do we restore trust? one thing that is clear, every president has had a problem with the press. you can find it chapter after chapter. and you talked about it in the podcast we did about how these are not new things that we're going through. is the relationship with the press worse now than it has been at any point in history? >> i think the problem is that when we deal with alternative facts, when we deal with enemies of the people, when we use terms like that, it does erode trust in a near sacred american institution. so although we've had those issues in the past with presidents and the press, i don't think that it has been

i'm sure you, like me are sparing thoughts for john quincy adams, but your historical impression on the what he's trying to do. have we ever been here before? >> no. not -- with the exception of watergate and the saturday night massacre, perhaps there's been totally unreported pressure, but that would have been more cultural and not quite as direct. i appreciate your mentioning what is in fact the super bowl for dorks, which is presidents' day. we're doing franklin pierce nachos around the house here. so if you want to, the recipe, we can pass those along. you know -- >> poor kids. >> -- it's true. you know, it gets worser and worser. mike allen had an interesting list in axios over the weekend how trump had gotten lucky, which does help to explain why the approval ratings are where they are both on the economy and iran and other things, but it gave me pause as i sat and read it, because if we're living on luck, then to go to everything that david and jeremy are saying, luck runs out. there's, for -- no matter what side of the aisle you've been on, what part of the spectrum from fdr to

indicate, actually, the second great awakening and the awakening of something daniel webbster, john quincy adams, of course frederick douglass knew better than anybody, but that -- how can you be a christian and follow the teachings of jesus, and at the same time put brothers and sisters in chains and bondage? they're inconsistent. they're incongruent. you can't have those two things working together. sure, slavery's talked about in the bible. but -- and it's always been around and it grieves me greatly. we heard a year ago at the national prayer breakfast there are now more slaves in the world than there have ever been at any time in the world's history. tragic. some say, well, that points to our own disgusting history here in the united states, like columbus coming over and establishing slavery. again, a lot of people don't know their history. but there were indian tribes that had captured and enslaved other indian tribes. i used to say native americans, but we've had so many native americans testify before our committee and they normally say, i'm an indian from such and such indian tribe. so

john adams. the net before the inauguration ,adams slipped out of washington broken hearted. when both have retired jefferson to monticello and adams to quincy they began to speak once again through letters. as reagan reminded us in 1986 they wrote on every imaginable subject -- horseback riding, jefferson talking about sneezing as a cure for hiccups. other subject for their. ones, thef loved mystery of grief and sorrow, the importance of religion in the young country, and the final for the two old men country they helped found and loved so deeply. that carries me back jefferson said to the times when the set with difficulty and danger. we were fellow laborers in the same cause, struggling for what is most valuable to men -- his right to self-government. oarring, always, at the but they way threatening to overwhelm us, yet, passing harmless by we rode through the storm with heart in hand. that was the last gift to us. a lesson in brotherhood, tolerance for each other, insight that would make america strong and great is a nation. when both died on the same day , 50 years after the declaration was signed, america had -- what many consider to b

but they had two uncles who died and then it is one of john quincy adams in the harvard football coach. there is something in the family's gene that doesn't go while with alcohol. i'm not made any attempt to seek out current members. we will see how that goes. charles francis. junior no one forces one into a career of public service. the kind of walk away from an impulse. i think it says a lot about the global decline of the family. >> i read about britain and america during the civil war it was a great book. i did comment a fair amount about charles francis not been very good socially in england. how do you think he overcame them. that is a great book. i wouldn't go as far as that. he does try very hard. he always has people for some kind of public a function or dinner. a lot of important brief politicians. he's never one of these he is very smart at who was on his side and he was not. he wants to see that u.s. lose during that time. again he is not he's not the kind of people find schmoozing something that comes naturally. he's a very smart politician and knows how to play british po