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John Adams is the Devil's Advocate of the Founding Fathers. A revolutionary turned international diplomat turned President who was never afraid to stand alone if he was convinced that standing alone was the right thing to do.
From the Boston Massacre to the Continental Congresses to the Treaty of Paris and the Quasi War with France, we'll follow Adams as he charts the unique path of a man who refused to be carried by the tides of history, and instead sought to control them.
Bibliography
1. John Adams - David McCullough
2. John Quincy Adams - Harlow G Unger
3. Washington, A Life - Ron Chernow
4. Hamilton - Ron Chernow
5. Thomas Jefferson, The Art of Power - Jon Meacham
6. James Madison - Richard Brookhiser
7. The Last Founding Father, James Monroe and A Nation’s Call to Greatness - Harlow G Unger
8. The Presidents Fact Book - Roger Matuz
04/05/20 • 42 min
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[Abridged] Presidential Histories - 02.) John Adams 1797-1801
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Writing about John Adams reminds me a lot of a research paper I read in business school.
The paper was about Devil’s advocates. Particularly, Devil’s advocates in collaborative situations. Devil’s advocates are, of course, people who challenge the group consensus with alternative ideas or reasons everybody else could be wrong. And the gist of the paper was that groups that had devil’s advocates outperformed groups that didn’t have devil’s advocates. But, if you polled the gro
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