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From the day he saw with his own eyes what the British had done at Lexington and Concord, Adams failed to understand how anyone could have any misconception or naive hope about what to expect from the British.

WHAT NEITHER JOHN DICKINSON nor John Adams nor anyone could have anticipated was the stunning effect of Common Sense.

There was more to be done by sea and land than anyone knew, Adams kept saying.

Much as he foresaw the hard truth about the war to be waged, Adams had the clearest idea of anyone in Congress of what independence would actually entail, the great difficulties and risks, no less than the opportunities.

From the flow of dispatches arriving at the War Office in Philadelphia, Adams was more aware of the situation than anyone in Congress and he was miserable, thinking about the consequences of a defeat at New York.

Not until the government at The Hague took it upon itself to recognize the United States would anyone in the government be permitted to receive Adams officially.

Of the overwhelming convulsion soon to come in France, of the violent end in the offing for the whole European world Adams had come to know, he appears to have had few if any premonitions, no more than anyone else.

Yet through it all, true to his promise, Adams had shown no anger or acted discourteously to anyone.

Ahead of anyone in the government, and more clearly than any, Adams foresaw the French Revolution leading to chaos, horror, and ultimate tyranny.

In theory, Jefferson deplored parties or faction no less than did Adams or anyone.

But with the exception of Madison, Adams understood Jefferson as well as anyone did, or perhaps ever could.

With Rush, Adams felt free to say things not possible with just anyone, as for example in appraising those they had known in the struggle.

She was forty-nine and for most of her life, as Adams would tell Jefferson, she had enjoyed the best health of anyone in the family.

She had had the foresight to bring with her an adaptor plug for her hair dryer and later she blamed the noise the dryer was making for masking the sound of anyone knocking on her door.

They are on their own, lost, lost to this obscene place, a place larger than anyone can safely care for, the place his carefully isolated adaptor molecules locate and leave him to.