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Of Arms and Artists: The American Revolution through Painters' Eyes

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message 1: by Alexander (new) - rated it 5 stars

May 30, 2017 02:26PM

Alexander Hamilton (the_a_dot_ham) | 96 comments

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Chapter 6! Someday, I'll catch up... Maybe tonight after my other real life book club meets.

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message 2: by Jane (new) - rated it 5 stars

May 30, 2017 09:08PM

I'm going to read this one tonight! Good ol John Adams is in it, yay.

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message 3: by Alexander (new) - rated it 5 stars

May 31, 2017 05:27AM

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I started it last night. I was chuckling at a few of the John Adams parts.

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message 4: by Jane (new) - rated it 5 stars

May 31, 2017 07:28AM

Me too. Staiti does not let us forget Adams' vanity, or his obsession with Posterity, for a moment. I enjoyed the description of Franklin's widespread and somewhat ridiculous celebrity in Paris, and poor John Adams having to suffer through it, particularly after Franklin had stabbed him in the back. I'm sure Ben Franklin had a certain degree of vanity himself, he just knew how to manage it much better. He was a far more skilled politician than Adams.

I'm still bitter about Copley not returning to America. He could have given us some amazing portraits.

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