John Adams, Episodes 5, 6, & 7

Wow. I thought the last three episodes would be anticlimactic and that all the events leading up to the Revolution would far exceed any drama after Washington’s election. It’s true that the Great Events slowed down after that, but it became a much more personal and humanizing film. The conflicts between Adams and Jefferson as …

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Where was the outrage in 2000?

I see the cable shows are wringing their collective hands about the return of some Clinton-era Democrats to actual policy-making jobs in the Obama Administration. Correct me if I’m wrong, but when GWB brought John Negroponte and Elliot Abrams into his Administration I don’t recall any such kerfuffle, despite their dirty hands in Central and …

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