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Spur of Fame - Dialogues of John Adams & Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813 (Hardcover, New ed)
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Spur of Fame - Dialogues of John Adams & Benjamin Rush, 1805-1813 (Hardcover, New ed)
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John Adams and Benjamin Rush were two remarkably different men who
shared a devotion to liberty. Their dialogues on the implications
of fame for their generation prove remarkably timely--even for the
twenty-first century.Adams and Rush championed very different views
on the nature of the American Revolution and of the republic
established with the United States Constitution; yet they shared
one of the most important correspondences of their time.John Adams
and Benjamin Rush met in 1774 as members of the Continental
Congress--Adams from Massachusetts, Rush from Pennsylvania. In
1805, after Adams was defeated in his quest of a second term as the
new republic's second President, the two men self-consciously
commenced an exchange of letters. Their recurring subject was fame.
This emphasis on fame was crucial, Adams and Rush believed, because
on the fame attached to individual leaders of the Revolutionary
generation would depend the view of the Revolution and of the
Constitution and republican government that would be embraced by
generations to come, including our own.The new Liberty Fund edition
of "The Spur of Fame" reproduces a text originally published by the
Huntington Library.Douglass Adair (1912-1968) edited the "William
and Mary Quarterly" from 1947 to 1955, and was a greatly
influential professor and writer. Adair co-edited "Origin and
Progress of the American Rebellion" with John A. Schutz in 1961.
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