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Article: The brusque, essential Founding Father from Massachusetts who kept the nation afloat.(BOOKS)
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- The Washington Times (Washington, DC)
- Article date:
- June 26, 2005
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Byline: Michael P. Riccards, SPECIAL TO THE WASHINGTON TIMES
It is frequently remarked that of all the American Founding Fathers, we have most often neglected the contributions of John Adams. But that cannot be true - for we remember him more fondly and frequently than Alexander Hamilton, George Mason, Patrick Henry, James Otis, James Wilson and other major figures of the Revolution. Only George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, and at times James Madison have a higher status in our pantheon of early heroes. Adams was of course in the minds of his colleagues an "Atlas of Independence," a true colossus before and during the war.
He embodied the revolutionary ...