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Presidential Challengers! (John Adams spoilers, maybe)
It's always funny to warn about spoilers in a book like this, because it's non-fiction and we all know what happens, right? Something really exciting happened to me yesterday, though! I was reading about the 1800 election campaign between Adams and Jefferson and how ugly it all was, and I realized that I had no idea how that election came out. I had no idea whether Adams served a second term or not. Of course I know Jefferson was president after Adams, but I didn't know if it was in that election or the next one. I was unreasonably excited about there being suspense in my John Adams book!
It's been interesting to watch the relationship between Adams and Jefferson change over the course of the book, too. It seems like the advent of party politics just tore their friendship apart. It makes me like Jefferson less. But also makes me look forward to reading about him more.
It's been interesting to watch the relationship between Adams and Jefferson change over the course of the book, too. It seems like the advent of party politics just tore their friendship apart. It makes me like Jefferson less. But also makes me look forward to reading about him more.
Re: Presidential Challengers! (John Adams spoilers, maybe)
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I agree, though. I haven't read all that much on this time period, but even within this book, my opinion of Jefferson, and of Franklin for that matter, has been vacillating. Historians have their biases, just like everyone else, I suppose. I think it would be hard to put that amount of time and energy into researching a book like this and not like the person you're writing about. I'm not sure I'd be able to do it if I wasn't at least a little bit emotionally invested in the person I was writing about. So then when it comes to other people committing some wrong against your main character, wouldn't you feel upset about it or tend to take it a nit personally, too? It's an interesting dynamic, anyway.
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