John Adams on what he thought would be the future of July 4th Independence Day celebrations:
"I believe that it will be celebrated by succeeding generations as the great anniversary festival. It ought to be celebrated by pomp and parade, with shows, games, sports, guns, bells, bonfires, and illuminations from one end of this continent to the other..."
It seems that we're fulfilling his dream.
Happy 4th!
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#29 "Warren G Harding" by John Dean
Reading a book on each of the 44 Presidents
What I'm Reading
#29 "Warren G Harding" by John Dean
What I've Read
- #28 "Woodrow Wilson" by H W Brands
- #27: "William Howard Taft" by Herbert Smith Duffy
- #26: "Lion in the White House" by Aida D. Donald
- #25: "William McKinley" by Kevin Phillips
- #23: "Benjamin Harrison" by Charles W. Calhoun
- #22 and #24: "Grover Cleveland" by Henry F. Graff
- #21: "Chester Alan Arthur" by Zachary Karabell
- #20: "James A. Garfield" by Ira Rutkow
- #19: "Rutherford B. Hayes: Statesman of Reunion" by H. J. Eckenrode
- #18: "Ulysses S. Grant" by Josiah Bunting III
- #17: "Andrew Johnson: A Biography" by Hans Trefousse
- #16: "Lincoln: A Life of Purpose and Power" by Richard Carwardine
- #15: "James Buchanan" by Jean H. Baker
- #14: "Franklin Pierce: Young Hickory of the Granite Hills" by Roy Franklin Nichols
- #13 "Millard Fillmore: Biography of a President" by Robert Raybach
- #12 "Zachary Taylor" John S.D. Eisenhower
- #11 "James K. Polk" by John Seigenthaler
- #10: "John Tyler, The Accidental President" by Edward Crapol
- #9: "Old Tippecanoe: William Henry Harrison and His Time" by Freeman Cleaves
- #8: "Martin Van Buren" by Ted Widmer
- #7: "American Lion: Andrew Jackson in the White House" by Jon Meacham
- #6: "John Quincy Adams" by Lynn Hudson Parsons
- #5: "James Monroe" by Gary Hart
- #4 "James Madison" by Garry Wills
- "The Federalist Papers" by James Madison, Alexander Hamilton and John Jay
- #3 "Thomas Jefferson" by R.B. Bernstein
- #2 "Passionate Sage" by Joseph J. Ellis
- #1 "Washington's Crossing" by David Hackett Fischer
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