GregS* writes “From a Sunday NYT article by Rick Brookhiser: “John Adams, though an erratic writer, was the greatest marginalist of the founding fathers, as pungent as he was copious. Later this month, the Boston Public Library is mounting an exhibition called “John Adams Unbound,” displaying some 3,700 volumes that belonged to the second president. (I am one of the historians on the advisory panel.) They bring us close to a great and eccentric man, and give an object lesson in the history of book collecting. But they also contain a trove of marginalia. Some of the gaudiest examples will be displayed in open copies, which will be available permanently online at johnadamslibrary.org. Zoltan Haraszti, a former keeper of rare books and editor of publications at the library, published many of Adams’s marginalia in his 1952 book, “John Adams and the Prophets of Progress.” But now this quadrant of Adams’s mind will be completely mapped.”
Hat tip Power Line.”
Great and eccentric and more…
Yep, he’s the brilliant mind who came up with “The Sedition Act”.
Re:Great and eccentric and more…
yeah and? The Founding Fathers were more sinners than saints but they’re still head and shoulders above the majority of world statesmen before or since.