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Article: John Adams. (The Popular Adams).
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
- Article date:
- January 1, 2002
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JOHN ADAMS. By DAVID MCCULLOUGH. Simon & Schuster. 752 pp. $35.
EVER SINCE 1776 John Adams and Thomas Jefferson have been nearly joined at the hip: collaborators and strong supporters of the movement for independence; members of the Committee to draft the Declaration of Independence; leaders of the American diplomatic corps in France and Britain during and after the Revolutionary War; Vice President and Secretary of State respectively under the new constitution; correspondents extraordinaire during their post-politics years of retirement. Most strikingly, they "rode off into the sunset together," dying on the same day, which happened to be the Fourth of July, and ...
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