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Good in Fair jacket. viii, [6], 362 pages. Frontis illustration. Illustrations. Notes. Index. Ex-library with some of the usual markings. DJ has wear, tears, soiling and chips. Zoltan Haraszti was especially well qualified to give a thorough interpretation of Adams and the philosophes. He was the author of numerous essays on American history and eighteenth-century European literature. He was Keep of Rare Books and Editor of Publications at the Boston Public Library. At the time, a large part of Adams' library, including many with Adams' marginal notes and comments, were housed there. The reader of this book will be listening in on conversations between John Adams and the 18th-century English and French writers? Bolingbroke, Rousseau, Voltaire, Turgot, and a dozen others? whose books he read. For as he read, Adams kept up a lively argument through the penetrating remarks he wrote down in the margins of his books, thus recording what amounted to real dialogues with their authors. Here are these dialogues: brief excerpts from the text, accompanied by Adams? notes, with sagacious commentary by Zoltan Haraszti. This book presents the most important material about Adams and his political and religious thought that has come to light in the past sixty years? and it makes fascinating reading.
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