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EPISODE · Jun 14, 2022 · 6 MIN

How Sleep the Brave

from The American Story

Back in that spring and summer of 1775, when he was just seven years old and the War for Independence swirled around him and his family, John Quincy Adams remembered, "[my mother] taught me to repeat daily after the Lord's prayer [the Ode of Collins] before rising from bed."

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