Sedition and Perdition

Published: March 10, 2021, 4:31 a.m.

b'We continue \\u201cPresidential Month\\u201d with the second set of readings - this time on Jahn Adams - from the forthcoming (in May) \\u201cThe Words That Made Us.\\u201d\\xa0 Adams\\u2019 unique combination of bombast, verbosity, grandiloquence, ubiquity, and insecurity, makes him an author\\u2019s dream.\\xa0 It also left him extraordinarily thin-skinned, and the notorious Sedition Act was the result. Akhil and Andy take a grand tour of Adams\\u2019 constitutional misadventures.'