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The historian and bass player for The Avett Brothers revisits the life of John Quincy Adams, arguably America's greatest ex-president. For event details and more, visit https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/... READ THE BOOK NYPL Catalog: https://www.nypl.org/events/programs/... The Library Shop — proceeds benefit The New York Public Library: https://shop.nypl.org/collections/eve... LIVE FROM NYPL Upcoming Events: https://nypl.org/live Sign up for our newsletters: https://nypl.org/updates John Quincy Adams was born nine years before the signing of the Declaration of Independence, and he died as the United States was sliding irrevocably toward Civil War. In between he was a foreign ambassador, secretary of state, sitting president, and finally ex-president and sitting congressperson. In America’s Founding Son, Bob Crawford—best known as the bassist for the Grammy-nominated band The Avett Brothers—traces Adams’s unparalleled life and career. He helped formulate the Monroe Doctrine, which was evoked as recently as the day Venezuelan leader Nicolás Maduro was arrested. He is also the only ex-president to serve in Congress, where he confronted slaveholders and challenged the nation to live up to its founding ideals. Crawford talks to presidential historian Alexis Coe about John Quincy Adams’s unlikely second act that reshaped not just his legacy but the country’s. ABOUT THE SPEAKERS Bob Crawford is the bassist for the Grammy-nominated band the Avett Brothers and creator of the iHeart Curiosity podcast series, Founding Son: John Quincy’s America, and the SiriusXM Volume Channel docuseries Concerts of Change: The Soundtrack of Human Rights. He’s also co-host of the Road to Now history podcast. However, Bob does not just play a historian—in 2020 he earned a master’s degree in history from Arizona State University. More important than his passion for music and history is his dedication to raising awareness about pediatric cancer. Bob and his wife, Melanie, are co-managing partners for the Press On Fund, an organization that seeks to find less toxic treatments for childhood cancer. Bob is periodically a speaker on behalf of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in Memphis, TN. It’s a personal cause, as Bob’s daughter Hallie is a three-time cancer survivor. Alexis Coe is one of the nation’s foremost presidential historians, a senior fellow at New America, a bi-partisan think tank, and the American history columnist at The New York Times. Coe is the award-winning, New York Times bestselling author of, most recently, You Never Forget Your First: A Biography of George of Washington. Her next book, Young Jack: A Biography of John F. Kennedy, 1917–1957, will be published in 2026. Coe frequently appears on CNN, MSNBC, CBS, History, PBS, and many others, and has been featured in and published by most major publications, including The New Yorker, Rolling Stone, and The Washington Post. She was a Research Curator at The New York Public Library. The New York Public Library welcomes your comments and invites you to participate in conversations on NYPL social media platforms. To make the experience better for all of our social media followers, we ask that you keep your comments relevant to the original post. Off-topic comments may be removed to ensure that the conversation remains productive.