lol Thanks. it was an interesting face to draw since Paul Giamatti doesnt really look like himself in the photo.
From what I've seen of the episodes so far the Jefferson/Adams relationship was really weird. You should check it out or read the book by David McCullough which is supposedly also awesome.
Yeah, I actually got to meet David McCullough and discuss it with him a couple years ago when he came to Hillsdale College (where I went to school). The guy is amazingly smart, but pretty biased towards John Adams (and against Jefferson). Basically, he feels like Adams got the shaft, as far as the way history remembers him versus Jefferson. But I can't forgive Adams for the Alien & Sedition acts -- he was no friend of liberty, no matter how friendly a picture McCullough wants to paint of him. I think Adams was a miserable whiner (and the miniseries did a great job of capturing it!). So Jefferson's my man -- go freedom go (I love Franklin all to pieces, too)!
That's amazing that you got to meet him though. I have all these books of his that I never got around to reading...Truman, Caesar, Eisenhower... I've always kind have been a bigger fan of Ambrose (D-Day) or Jay Winik (April 1865 - probably my favorite history book)
I haven't gotten the Adams coming off as a whiner though. I thought he (and everyone else that was involved) had just overwhelming amounts of odds against them, that while Adams was trying to make things happen, Jefferson never really risked anything... like supporting from the shadows.
In fact the weakest character of the bunch seems to be good ole George Washington, the tall guy in the room that everyone was mysteriously drawn to.
I can agree with the Washington-seeming-weak thing, though I can't sympathize too terribly with some of your other comments. Jefferson did just as much as Adams -- if not more -- but he was humble about them, never complaining that he was unappreciated or behaving petulantly. But let's leave two-hundred-and-fifty-year-old enmities in the past, shall we?
Personally I feel that John Adams was kind of a dick (I'm a Jefferson girl, myself) but this art is still lovely.
From what I've seen of the episodes so far the Jefferson/Adams relationship was really weird. You should check it out or read the book by David McCullough which is supposedly also awesome.
That's amazing that you got to meet him though. I have all these books of his that I never got around to reading...Truman, Caesar, Eisenhower... I've always kind have been a bigger fan of Ambrose (D-Day) or Jay Winik (April 1865 - probably my favorite history book)
I haven't gotten the Adams coming off as a whiner though. I thought he (and everyone else that was involved) had just overwhelming amounts of odds against them, that while Adams was trying to make things happen, Jefferson never really risked anything... like supporting from the shadows.
In fact the weakest character of the bunch seems to be good ole George Washington, the tall guy in the room that everyone was mysteriously drawn to.