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PRESENT AT THE CREATION - The literary contributions of two figures - one famous, one obscure - to the birth of a nation
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June 29, 2008
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BOOK REVIEW
The Muse of the Revolution: The Secret Pen of Mercy Otis Warren
and the Founding of a Nation
By Nancy Rubin Stuart
Beacon, 315 pp., $28.95
The Road to Monticello: The Life and Mind of Thomas Jefferson
By Kevin J. Hayes
Oxford University, 752 pp., illustrated, $34.95
Amid the ongoing debate about the Founding Fathers - Is John
Adams still underrated? Was Thomas Jefferson an unforgivable
hypocrite? - one proposition recurs in the annual crop of books
timed for publication around the Fourth of July. This was a
generation of highly literate politicians. Adams and Jefferson, for
example, became indispensable men of the Revolution in part because
of their literary skills.
This year's ...
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