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PRESENT AT THE CREATION - The literary contributions of two figures - one famous, one obscure - to the birth of a nation

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.

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