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#1552 Ten Things: If George Washington Could Drop the Mic

Listening to America

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John Adams and the Renaissance

John Adams is a pompous fool at times, but he's not a pose. Paul Giamatti is a perfect John Adams. He wears his whole soul on his sleeve. And there's neurosis and self-pity and irascibility and envy of absolutely everybody who's accomplished anything that's not John Adams. But I love this about Adams. He's so accessible to us.

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