The Prodigy of John Quincy Adams

"There always seems to be one son that gets extra pressure and John Quincy Adams is the son that getsextra pressure," says author. Jake Ua was a man of the world with an understanding of different cultures, which sometimes put him at odds with his fellow Americans because he was so much more worldly,. He loved to continue to try and master languages. Later on in his life, he makes himself translate things in German. "I can only think of John Adams as a kind of a comic figure, even though he was a very serious man."