i think one of the great best friends of history -- people north john quincy adamss of the world. i think she was not part of the -- one of the threads in the book is about her own intimacy with slavery. she was antislavery but it's complicated. she had -- she lived in the washington -- in washington, dc, and did not say the right things. how do you deal with that? so i do think that -- that's not why i probably approached this book. i'm just kind of drawn to people -- i'm usually drawn to a person who has been next to the person in power for some reason. but this is a kind of -- to answer your question in a totally different way -- this period in which john quincy adams was president was the first real kind of populist rising, and part of the way the in which they negotiated that was quite interesting. trying to figure out how to -- how the country was changing and how to -- what kind of relationship to have to people and the franchise was expanding, and really fraught time, and i think we tend to think that the early republic is the kind of -- they knew that why were doing and w