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Vast library, thoughts of John Adams displayed

Adams wrote notes, musings, and commentaries in the margins of nearly everything he read.
By Brian MacQuarrie
Globe Staff / September 22, 2006

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In the pantheon of Founding Fathers, John Adams is usually considered an also-ran. There is no memorial to him in Washington, no portrait of him on US currency, no singular achievement that is drilled into the heads of schoolchildren from Maine to California. (Full article: 679 words)

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