Influences
Adams served in the Wilson administration, with Colonel House, who wrote "Phillip Dru Administrator". His father, who during the 1901 panic, due to severe cash shortages had just four hours to save his business, sought out JP Morgan who granted this heretofore stranger, a loan for $50,000 in two minutes, at 6 percent interest, saving him from bancruptcy. Reading 'Epic' shows that he was heavily influenced by Marxism.
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“The first in time and the first in importance of the influences upon the mind is that of nature. Every day, the sun; and after sunset, night and her stars. Ever the winds blow; ever the grass grows.”
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