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JOHN ADAMS AND THE PROPHETS OF PROGRESS (362 pp.]-Zoltan Haraszti-Harvard University Press...
...spry, scholarly picture of John Adams in his study is offered by Zoltan Haraszti, curator of the Boston Public Library's rare books section, in John Adams and the Prophets of Progress. Author Haraszti manages to write well up to the expert's mark without writing above the interested layman's head. As it happens, John Adams does most of his writing...
...Author Haraszti has culled Adams' choicest comments and neatly arranged them in the form of dialogues. In this play of intellects, Adams clashed most frequently with the French philosophers, e.g., Rousseau, Voltaire, D'Alembert, Condorcet and their disciples. Adams reveals himself as one of the greatest conservatives who ever helped to make a revolution. Sample dialogue between Adams and Mary Wollstonecraft, mother-in-law of Percy Bysshe Shelley, an ardent feminist, and author of an urgent work entitled Historical and Moral View of the Origin and Progress of the French Revolution...
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