In 1819, 18 years after leaving the White House, John Adams fretted that “Mausoleums, Statues, Monuments will never be erected to me. … Panegyrical romances will never be written, nor flattering ...
“Shaker Loops” … “Hoodoo Zephyr” … “Short Ride in a Fast Machine” — the titles alone of John Adams’ musical compositions suggest he’d make a lively, witty prose writer. That proves to be the case in ...
Joseph J. Ellis, a popular and prize-winning biographer, has produced in "First Family: Abigail and John Adams" another of his patented narratives of this nation's founders. Winner of the Pulitzer ...
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