HBO’s John Adams series, lent to me by a friend, was incredible; six hours depicting the highlights and pitfalls of a career that is memorialized in the pages of thousands of books and now portrayed on the television screen.
Could the Adams have ever known the result of their sacrifice? Could Abigail have borne her husband’s absence easier if she knew it would build the nation we have today?
Conversely, what would they say to see the state of the nation now, following the Jeffersonian pattern John resented so much?
More later…
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