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As we look over the list of the early leaders of the republic, Washington, John Adams, Hamilton, and others, we discern that they were all men who insisted upon being themselves and who refused to truckle to the people. With each succeeding generation, the growing demand of the people that its elective officials shall not lead but merely register the popular will has steadily undermined the independence of those who derive their power from popular election. The persistent refusal of the Adamses to sacrifice the integrity of their own intellectual and moral standards and values for the sake of winning public office or popular favor is another of the measuring rods by which we may measure the divergence of American life from its starting point.


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He was not related to the famous Adams family (though he wrote a book about the family in 1930). Honors
Adams lived in Southport Connecticut and died May 18 1949. In 1917 he served with Colonel House on President Wilson's commission "The Inquiry" to prepare data for the Paris Peace Conference.

James Truslow Adams (October 18 1878 – May 18 1949) was an American writer and historian. He was not an academic but a freelance author who helped to popularize the latest scholarship about American history and his three volume history of New England is well regarded by scholars. He was not related to the famous Adams family (though he wrote a book about the family in 1930).

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