John Quincy Adams is all over the place these days. First he appeared in the best-selling biography of by historian David McCullough. The book inspired Tom Hanks to produce the HBO seven-part miniseries John Adams, in which Mr. Adams was played by Paul Giamatti and Abigail Adams by Laura Linney. The first episode drew 2.7 million viewers, which suggests that John Adams may be the catalyst for a new trend of presidential bio pix. Thanks to the HBO project, Mr. Adams is attracting new interest and visitors to the Adams National Historic Park in Quincy (there he is again), Massachusetts. And today, John Adams made an appearance on MSNBC’s Meet The Press with Tim Russert when Newsday’s Jon Meacham compared a potential Clinton victory to 1824 when
Andrew Jackson won the popular vote, Henry Clay threw his support to John Quincy Adams. Adams becomes president. Four years later, running on a, running on a campaign saying, “That was a corrupt bargain,” Jackson takes over, founds the modern Democratic Party, and here we sit.
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