John Adams | John Adams
Dec.26.2011
Hello, fellow Red Room authors and readers. I’m still a novice blogger, but I’d like to announce the publication of my new book, Hedy’s Folly, about the life and inventions of Hollywood actress Hedy Lamarr.
The New York Times Sunday Book Review gave it the cover this month with a review...
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Apr.28.2010
Jefferson and Washington were part of the Virginia wing of American Independence, but John Adams represents the New England faction. Adams was a typically thrifty Bostonian who graduated from Harvard, considered the ministry, then studied law and became an attorney in 1758. He married Abigail...
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Nov.25.2009
I heard a song this morning that summed up the mood in this nation quite well:
"...because we need a little Christmas, right this very minute...lalalala, words, words, words...because we need a little Christmas now!"
Sorry, but I'm a little sketchy on some of the in-between lyrics. Anyway...
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Aug.02.2009
Science has been under attack for a while now. First, by the back-to-the-earth crowd of the Sixties. I remember one encounter between novelist James Michener and a campus radical of those heady days. The youth was excoriating science in general for everything from napalm to Teflon-lined skillets....
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