1. John Quincy Adams
"Mausoleums, statues, monuments will never be erected to me," Adams wrote in 1809 to a friend who also had been breading John Marshall's massive and pietistic Life of Washington. " I wish them not. ... One could wish for his comments upon learning that a definitive edition of his papers is in progress, that biographers and students of all aspects of his career and thought are busier and more numerous that ever, and that he is the leading character- and a highly attractive one-in a musical play, 1776, that ran for years on Broadway, has been performed with great success elsewhere, and is ...
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