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Yankee Patriot |
| Section: BOOK WORLD / REVIEWS |
| Author: Eric P. Olsen |
| Publication: The world & I online |
| Issue Date: 1/1/2002 |
| Size: 2,846 Words, 17,783 Characters |
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JOHN ADAMS
David McCullough
New York: Simon and Schuster, 2001
751 pp., $35.00
"It is universally admitted that Mr. Adams is a man of incorruptible integrity, and that the resources of his own mind are equal to the duties of his station," wrote the Philadelphia Aurora upon the election of John Adams to the presidency in 1797.
What is surprising about this commendation is that it came from the new president's political enemies, whose hostility to Adams had only recently--and would soon enough again--set a benchmark for political invective for the next two hundred years.
Similarly remarkable today is that a new biography of the long-neglected founder and second president has become a certified publishing phenomenon. That the American public is discovering the virtues of the ...
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...philosophy. My sons ought to study mathematics and philosophy, geography, natural history, naval architecture, navigation, commerce, and agriculture in order to give their children the right to study paintings, poetry, music, architecture, statuary, tapestry, and porcelain." That Americans have enjoyed these freedoms is due in no small part to the vision, courage, and probity of John Adams.
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