
January 2020
OLLI: The Adams Family
The Adams Family is our longest and arguably our most influential dynasty, exercising powerful influence over American affairs for almost two centuries. Brilliant, learned, and witty, yet often abrasive, arrogant, andgrandiose, the Adams Family never failed to arouse controversy during their long stay on the stage of history. In this course we will trace the tumultuous and controversial careers of this remarkable clan, from Johnand Abigail — America’s first ‘power couple,’ — to John Quincy, the child prodigy who followed…
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