3 Quotes & Sayings By Gavin John Adams

Gavin John Adams is a writer whose work has been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Boston Globe, and The American Prospect. He also contributes to The Atlantic, The American Prospect, and The New Republic. His younger brother is the actor Hugh Adams.

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The primary purposes of the political pamphlets of the early 1700s were neither to enlighten nor educate the masses, but to incite partisan conversation and spread commensurate ideas. Facts were not permitted to fetter the views they espoused, and the restraints of objective journalistic credibility were discarded by pamphleteers bent on promoting subjective slant to an insatiable general public for whom political dissonance was an integral part of social interaction. Gavin John Adams
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Contrary to the tenets of conventional wisdom, viral ideas and campaigns were not first transmitted via the electronic media of the Internet age. Their ideological forebears lived and replicated in the host coffee-houses, inns and taverns of the early eighteenth-century. Gavin John Adams