Episode 9: Sedition and Perdition

March 10, 2021

The inimitable John Adams makes for a fascinating subject in the second of four sets of readings from Akhil’s forthcoming tome, “The Words That Made Us.”

We continue “Presidential Month” with the second set of readings – this time on John Adams – from the forthcoming (in May) “The Words That Made Us.”  Adams’ unique combination of bombast, verbosity, grandiloquence, ubiquity, and insecurity, makes him an author’s dream.  It also left him extraordinarily thin-skinned, and the notorious Sedition Act was the result. Akhil and Andy take a grand tour of Adams’ constitutional misadventures.