ok, so i am at the part of john adam's biography where he and john quincy adams (age 10) are picked up by a ship under cover of darkness well north of boston...to go to france to implore the french king to support the americans in their war of indepedence.....from the get-go....this entire thing was deja-vu........the british contend that the war is unpopular...supported by only a handful of renegades......but the brits engage in some heinous shows of force, which rallies the side of the underdog.......adams arrives in paris, where he and franklin are put up...at no cost....by a rich guy who stands to make a fortune with government contracts for war-related provisions........sound familiar? they are staying in passy, which is part of my parisian fantasy..when i win the lottery i will buy a place just off the metro station la muette, in passy, on the park just before the musee marmatton.....which is just before the bois de bologne.........i digress........so adams and franklin are in paris trying to sell the war to the enemies of the brits......and france does side with the americans........recently..i heard someone say...in contempt...that they couldn't understand how the french had let us down, after we saved them in wwII.....frankly....wwII made us even...the french saved us in the revolution.......

i must confess that reading about john adams and john quincy adams is too much like george bush and george w. bush.........i cannot read the words without thinking of the names transposed......happily, john quincy adams seems like a brighter bulb than gwb.......harvard rather than yale.......with better than a c average............